‘Snow-white’ monkeys of Sri Lanka draw in tourists

Mongabay
Apr 25, 2025, 12:27 am215 ptsTop
For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. These white monkeys are a color variant of the endangered purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus), also known as the…

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