leaf monkey

plural leaf monkeys

1. Any of various leaf-eating, arboreal Asian monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae of family Cercopithecidae, related to and including the langurs.

   White-headed leaf monkey (T. leiwocephalus) is also restricted to southern Guangxi.

   2008, Martin Walters, Heather Angel, Chinese Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide, →ISBN, page 57

   2 more examples

   The banded leaf monkey (Presbytis femoralis) is a very shy animal and keeps to the canopy.

   2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, Singapore Biodiversity, →ISBN

   Oh, a Francois' leaf monkey, about 2 years old, was looking at him sadly and giving a mournful wail. Its left hand was bleeding. Without a second thought, the highlander held the leaf monkey in his arms and hurried back home.

   2015, Kekang He, New Theory of Children’s Thinking Development, →ISBN