leaf monkey

English

Silvered leaf monkey

Noun

leaf monkey (plural leaf monkeys)

Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.
- 2008, Martin Walters, Heather Angel, Chinese Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide, →ISBN, page 57:
  White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi.
- 2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, Singapore Biodiversity, →ISBN:
  The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.
- 2015, Kekang He, New Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, →ISBN:
  Oh, a Francois' leaf monkey, about 2 years old, was looking at him sadly and giving a mournful wail. Its left hand was bleeding. Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home.

Translations

monkey of the genus Presbytis

Finnish: sureli

References

leaf monkey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Colobinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Colobinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
“leaf monkey”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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