How to Use langur in a Sentence

langur

noun
  • As late as 2011, many researchers feared the langur was extinct.
    — Dave Mosher, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2012
  • There are now 71 François’ langurs in zoos across the United States.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
  • Enter the langur – or at least, cardboard cutouts of langurs – and men trained to sound like the bigger primates.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That same day, a similar cut was found in the mesh surrounding the langur monkeys, though none of them escaped.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Bats, bull sharks, lions and langurs are getting roped into the quest to create live television events.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 5 July 2017
  • Dozens of grazing deer perk up their ears, then join in the staccato warning screeches of the langur monkeys and birds high up in the trees.
    — Charukesi Ramadurai, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The next day, a similar fence cut was found at a second enclosure, which contains the zoo's langur monkeys.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Light gray langurs hovered on the roadsides, vanishing into the forest as soon as a human appeared.
    — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
  • Meanwhile, zoo staff observed a similar cut to the enclosure of some langur monkeys, but none of them had escaped, the zoo said.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Video shows the boy at about a year old poking and prodding a group of gray langurs, a small species of old world monkey that has a large population in this region.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2017
  • That day, Dallas Zoo staffers spotted a similar cut in the fencing where its langur monkeys are held.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That same day, Dallas Zoo staffers spotted a similar cut in the fencing where its langur monkeys are held.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Zoo workers had also found a similar gash in an enclosure for langur monkeys, though none got out or appeared harmed, police said.
    — Jamie Stengle, ajc, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Life-size cutouts of angry langurs have popped up across the capital to dissuade smaller monkeys from wreaking havoc in public areas.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Delhi officials even hired people to impersonate langurs to keep rogue macaques out of parliament.
    — Jason Overdorf, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
  • Not in the flashy way of, say, the Spix’s macaw (which is believed to be extinct in the wild) or the Gee’s golden langur (which is endangered).
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • And there are many other animals to see at any time, including langur monkeys, nilgai antelope, wild boar, and sambar deer.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 5 May 2024
  • While the feline was found close to her habitat later that day, zoo personnel also found a similar cut had been made to the enclosure of some langur monkeys.
    — Andi Babineau, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The day after the leopard incident, zoo staffers found the enclosure for langur monkeys had also been cut, though the animals remained in the habitat.
    — María Paúl, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • He is also connected to the langur monkeys’ cut enclosure, a police spokeswoman said, but Pin’s death is an unlinked mystery.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • François’ langur monkeys are native to southwestern China and northeastern Vietnam, the zoo said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
  • That same day, investigators discovered a second fence had been similarly cut at a habitat for langur monkeys, police said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Life-size cutouts of langur monkeys have been scattered among the half a million decorative plants placed across the city with the aim of scaring away their archenemy, rhesus monkeys that plague parts of the city.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Langur monkeys mistake the motionless robotic spy monkey that was accidentally dropped as a lifeless baby langur and begin to grieve.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The endangered infant, who hasn’t been named yet, was born with a head and body covered in orange fur, which will gradually darken to jet black within a year, as is the case with all François langurs.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Like the grieving langur monkey, Zimmer argues, our understanding of life itself has always been and may always remain an exercise in pure instinct.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The day after Nova escaped, officials revealed a similar cut was found on an enclosure of langur monkeys, but said all of the langurs were in their habitat and accounted for.
    — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Fish for the penguins could be supplied from the zoo’s freezers, and leaves for the langurs (a genus of large Old World monkeys found throughout Southeast Asia) could be sourced locally.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The property also curated incredible experiences for us, from massages over a burbling brook at the jungle spa to a hike to learn more about the resort’s conservation efforts with langur monkeys.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Shortly after discovering the cut fencing in the clouded leopard habitat, zoo personnel showed investigators a similar cut found in the enclosure for langur monkeys at the zoo.
    — CBS News, 3 Feb. 2023

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