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Critically endangered monkey that calls Singapore home
Only 61 Raffles' banded langurs left here, and study shows species may be threatened with extinction globally too
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Genetic data from faecal samples has indicated that the Raffles' banded langur (above) is distinct enough from two other langur species in the region to be considered a species of its own.
PHOTO: ANDIE ANG
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In the small cluster of forests left in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, a black-and-white monkey lives on the brink of extinction.
With only 61 of them left here, the Raffles' banded langur is critically endangered in Singapore.
