Ghana’s rarest animals aren’t hiding in some remote corner of the map. Most live in a handful of forest reserves and one savanna park, and a few of them cling…
TLDR Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus avunculus) are mostly leaf-eaters. Their diet is built on young leaves and leaf stems from evergreen trees, vines and bamboo, with fruit, flowers and seeds…
TLDR The highland mangabey — better known as the kipunji — is a fruit-heavy omnivore. Ripe and unripe fruit make up the bulk of its diet, backed up by leaves,…
TLDR Leaves make up 68–90% of a white-headed langur’s diet, and young leaves alone can account for more than half of everything it eats in a given month. The rest…
TLDR Philippine tarsiers are the only fully carnivorous primates on Earth. They eat live insects almost exclusively — crickets, beetles, moths, ants, grasshoppers, cicadas — and occasionally ambush small vertebrates…
Table of Contents The short answer Grauer’s gorillas — also called eastern lowland gorillas — are almost entirely herbivorous, working through roughly 100 different plant species across their range in…
Table of Contents Why Malaysia Is a Biodiversity Powerhouse Malaysia sits inside Sundaland, one of the world’s most species-rich biodiversity hotspots — a landmass that once connected the Malay Peninsula…
TL;DR Moustached tamarins are mostly fruit-eating, insect-catching, gum-sipping little primates with a flexible diet. In the wild, they rely on fruit, arthropods like insects and spiders, tree gums and sap,…
Explore the complete list of 12 types of monkeys in India, with scientific names, sizes and regional ranges for each species. This guide helps nature lovers and wildlife observers identify common and lesser-known Indian primates and shows where to find them across different states and habitats.