Mortality and Threats to Hanuman Langurs (<i>Semnopithecus entellus Entellus</i>) in and around Jodhpur (Rajasthan)

Chena Ram; Gautam Sharma; L. S. Rajpurohit

doi:10.36808/if/2015/v141i10/80629

Mortality and Threats to Hanuman Langurs (Semnopithecus entellus Entellus) in and around Jodhpur (Rajasthan)

Authors

Chena Ram Department of Zoology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
Gautam Sharma Department of Zoology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
L. S. Rajpurohit Department of Zoology, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2015/v141i10/80629

Keywords:

Hanuman Langurs, Mortality, Electrocutions, Natural Death, Habitat Destruction.a

Abstract

Many factor like habitat destruction due to anthropological reason and climatic condition, electrocution, urbanization, natural predators and Infanticide affects the life span of free ranging langur and leads to artificial deathtohanumanLangur. Inour studyoutof totalobserveddeath(7.8%of total langur population) of langur, 35.7 % was due to only electrocutions and 23.6% due to road accident, 16% due to Natural predator, 22.2% due to unknown cause and 2.5% due to infanticide). The results suggest that electrocution is a major cause of death of free ranging langur.

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