Gray-shanked Douc Langur vs Jaggery palm

Pygathrix cinerea compared with Caryota urens

Key Differences

• Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered while Jaggery palm is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	Jaggery palm
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Liliopsida (Monocots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Arecales (Arecales)
Family	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)	Arecaceae
Genus	Pygathrix	Caryota
Species	Pygathrix cinerea	Caryota urens

Conservation Status

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

Jaggery palm

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Gray-shanked Douc Langur	Jaggery palm
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Jaggery palm

Habitat

Inhabits tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests spanning the Indomalayan and Neotropic realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Guinea, Seychelles, South Africa), Asia (India, Maldives, Taiwan), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru), and South America (Brazil, Colombia).