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A Red-shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus) munches on a handful of young vine leaves it has picked in the forest canopy. Although these endangered monkeys feed on over sixty different species of plants, they select their food carefully and in particular avoid sweet fruits which can upset the balance of bacteria in their guts. Like other leaf-eating colobine monkeys, doucs have large chambered stomachs – making them the only ruminant primates and giving them their characteristic pot-bellied appearance. Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam.
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Catarrhini, Cercopithecidae, Colobinae, Haplorhini, Mammalia, Presbytini, Primates, Pygathrix, Simiiformes, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, animal, critically endangered, douc langur, eat, eating, fauna, feeding, folivore, folivorous, folivory, herbivore, herbivorous, herbivory, in-situ, leaf, leaf monkey, leaf-eater, mammal, monkey, old world monkey, primate, threatened, tropical, wild, wildlife
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