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Wildlife of Lao PDR: 1999 Status Report - IUCN

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<strong>Wildlife</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Lao</strong> <strong>PDR</strong>: <strong>1999</strong> <strong>Status</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />

Plate 13:<br />

Captive loris, Xaignabouli, early 1998. The site <strong>of</strong> capture <strong>of</strong> this<br />

animal is unknown. The number <strong>of</strong> species <strong>of</strong> loris in <strong>Lao</strong> <strong>PDR</strong><br />

and the conservation status <strong>of</strong> each are still unclear.<br />

R. Boonratana / <strong>IUCN</strong>.<br />

Infant Nomascus gibbon, Ban Lak (20), Bolikhamxai Province, July<br />

1998. Gibbons <strong>of</strong> this sub-genus are difficult to identify to species.<br />

W. G. Robichaud / WCS.<br />

174<br />

Douc Langur, Nam Kading NBCA, early 1997. A fine example <strong>of</strong><br />

the red-shanked form, P. n. nemaeus, this animal was at the northwestern<br />

limit <strong>of</strong> the species’s known world range.<br />

C. W. Marsh / <strong>IUCN</strong>.<br />

Juvenile Nomascus gibbon, Ban Lak (20), January <strong>1999</strong>. This is<br />

believed to be the same individual as that in the preceding image.<br />

Gibbons <strong>of</strong> this sub-genus have a complex series <strong>of</strong> sex-specific<br />

age-related coat colour changes (see Delacour 1951b).<br />

W. G. Robichaud / WCS.

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