A Report on Population Survey of Hanuman Langurs in the District of Midnapore, West Bengal, India

Field Studies on the non-human primates of West Bengal have been carried out earlier by Southwick et el, (1964); Oppenheimer (1973); Bhuinya et al, (1993); Mukherjee et al. (1986); Chaudhuri et al, (2004) and Murmu et al, (2007). The primate species recorded in West Bengal are Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatto), Assamese miacaque (Macca assamensis) and Hanuman langur (Semnopithecus entellus). The Assamese macaque is restricted in distribution only in Darjeeling district (Mukherjee et al 1995, Murmmu et al 2004).