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Hose's langur (''Presbytis hosei'') is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is endemic to the island of Borneo, including Brunei, Kalimantan (Indonesia), and East Malaysia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.〔 It was first identified in Kutai National Park and Sangkulirang Peninsula, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in 1985. Miller's grizzled langur, a subspecies, is very rare and had been thought to be extinct, until the press announced in January 2012 its "rediscovery".〔('Extinct' monkey still lives in Borneo ) 20 January 2012 CBC.ca〕 Populations of Miller's grizzled langurs were first described in Kutai National Park and Sangkulirang Peninsula, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in 1985. In the past these primates had been hunted for their meat and occasional bezoar stones. Together with loss of natural habitats these populations have declined. An international team of scientists from Indonesia, USA, Canada, and Czech Republic, have studied this new population and published their findings in the American Journal of Primatology. Scientists had set up time-lapse recording equipment in the Wehea forest of the eastern tip of Borneo island, in June 2011. They discovered in over 4,000 of their images the primate, which was so rare it took efforts for the scientists to verify from old pictures what they had discovered. This area of forest is apparently outside of the primates' previous known range, being north-eastern part of Borneo, as well as the islands of Sumatra and Java and the Thai-Malay peninsula.〔('Extinct' monkey rediscovered in Indonesia jungle ) 20 January 2012 Guardian.co.uk Retrieved 20 January 2012〕〔Ella Davies ''(Elusive endangered monkeys caught on camera in Borneo )'' 20 January 2012 Bbc.co.uk Retrieved 20 January 2012〕 ==Subspecies== * Miller's grizzled langur, ''Presbytis hosei canicrus'' * Everett's grizzled langur, ''Presbytis hosei everetti'' * Hose's grizzled langur, ''Presbytis hosei hosei'' * Saban grizzled langur, ''Presbytis hosei sabana'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hose's langur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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