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ISSN 0898-6207 PRIMATE CONSERVATION The Journal of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group With a Special Section on the Crowned Sifaka (Propithecus coronatus) Number 28 2014 Primate Conservation is produced and circulated courtesy of the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, Conservation International, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the Department of Anatomical Sciences of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Primate Conservation The journal of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Conservation International 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202, USA ISSN 0898-6207 Abbreviation: Primate Conserv. Editors Russell A. Mittermeier, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA Anthony B. Rylands, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group Chairman Russell A. Mittermeier, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA Deputy Chair Anthony B. Rylands, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA Vice Chair: Section on Great Apes – Liz Williamson, Stirling University, Stirling, Scotland, UK Vice Chair: Section on Small Apes – Benjamin M. Rawson, Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK Regional Vice Chairs – Neotropics Mesoamerica – Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Museum of Zoology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Andean Countries – Erwin Palacios, Conservation International Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia; Eckhard W. Heymann, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany Brazil and the Guianas – M. Cecília M. Kierulff, Instituto Pri-matas, São Mateus, Espírito Santo, Brazil; Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Jataí, Goiás, Brazil; Maurício Talebi, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil Regional Vice Chairs – Africa W. Scott McGraw, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; David N. M. Mbora, Whittier College, Whittier, California, USA; Janette Wallis, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA Regional Vice Chairs – Madagascar Christoph Schwitzer, Bristol Zoological Society, Bristol, UK; Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust – Madagascar Programme, Antananarivo, Madagascar Regional Vice Chairs – Asia China – Long Yongcheng, The Nature Conservancy, China Southeast Asia / Indochina – Jatna Supriatna, Conservation International Indonesia Program, Jakarta, Indonesia; Christian Roos, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany; Ramesh Boonratana, Mahidol University International College, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand South Asia – Sally Walker, Zoo Outreach Organization, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India; Sanjay Molur, Wildlife Information Liaison Development, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Layout: Kim Meek, Washington, DC, USA IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group logo courtesy of Stephen D. Nash, 2002. Front cover: Adult female eastern patas monkey Erythrocebus patas pyrrhonotus, Laikipia County, central Kenya. The patas monkey is a highly threatened species in Kenya. See pages 11 7–128 in this issue for more information on the primates of Laikipia and their conservation. Photograph by Yvonne de Jong and Tom Butynski. This issue of Primate Conservation was kindly sponsored by the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, Virginia, USA, the Los Angeles Zoo, Los Angeles, California, and the Department of Anatomical Sciences of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Contents Neotropical Region Diversity, Abundance and Habitats of the Primates in the Río Curaray Basin, Peruvian Amazonia .........................................1 Rolando Aquino, Luís López, Gabriel García and Eckhard W. Heymann Madagascar Revision of Madagascar’s Dwarf lemurs (Cheirogaleidae: Cheirogaleus): Designation of Species, Candidate Species Status and Geographic Boundaries Based on Molecular and Morphological Data ......................................................................9 Runhua Lei, Cynthia L. Frasier, Adam T. McLain, Justin M. Taylor, Carolyn A. Bailey, Shannon E. Engberg, Azure L. Ginter, Richard Randriamampionona, Colin P. Groves, Russell A. Mittermeier and Edward E. Louis Jr. Announcing the Lemur Conservation Network ..............................................................................................................................37 Kim Reuter and Lynne Venart Special Section on the Crowned Sifaka Propithecus coronatus: Introduction .............................................................................39 Guest editors: Josia Razafindramanana, Tony King, Lounès Chikhi, Christoph Schwitzer and Jonah Ratsimbazafy A Preliminary Assessment of Sifaka (Propithecus) Distribution, Chromatic Variation and Conservation in Western Central Madagascar ...........................................................................................................................................................................................43 Laingoniaina Herifito Fidèle Rakotonirina, Fetraharimalala Randriantsara,Andoniaina Harilala Rakotoarisoa, Rado Rakotondrabe, Josia Razafindramanana, Jonah Ratsimbazafy andT ony King Distributional Limits and Melanism in the South-west of the Range of the Crowned Sifaka (Propithecus coronatus), Madagascar.........................................................................................................................................................................................55 Tony King, Laingoniaina Herifito Fidèle Rakotonirina, Andoniaina Harilala Rakotoarisoa, Josia Razafindramanana and Jonah Ratsimbazafy Spatio-temporal Change in Crowned (Propithecus coronatus) and Decken’s Sifaka (Propithecus deckenii) Habitat in the Mahavavy-Kinkony Wetland Complex, Madagascar ..............................................................................................................65 Rado H. Andriamasimanana and Alison Cameron Conservation Status and Abundance of the Crowned Sifaka (Propithecus coronatus) ...............................................................73 Jordi Salmona, Emmanuel Rasolondraibe, Fabien Jan, Aubin Besolo, Heriniaina Rakotoarisoa, Sam Viana Meyler, Sébastien Wohlhauser, Clément Rabarivola and Lounès Chikhi Acoustic Differences in Loud Calls of Decken’s and Crowned Sifakas (Propithecus deckenii and P. coronatus) at Two Sites in Madagascar ...................................................................................................................................................................85 Claudia Fichtel Social Behavior and Dominance of the Crowned Sifaka (Propithecus coronatus) in Northwestern Madagascar ..............................93 Rivo Ramanamisata, Claire Pichon, Hanta Razafindraibe and Bruno Simmen The European Captive Population of Crowned Sifaka: 25 Years of Management ......................................................................99 Delphine Roullet Africa Diet of the Ashy Red Colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) and Crop-Raiding in a Forest-Farm Mosaic, Mbuzi, Rukwa Region, Tanzania ..............................................................................................................................................................................109 Mohamed Kibaja Primate Conservation in the Rangeland Agroecosystem of Laikipia County, Central Kenya .................................................117 Thomas M. Butynski and Yvonne A. de Jong The First Survey of the Conservation Status of Primates in Southern Burkina Faso, West Africa ........................................129 Laura P. Ginn and K. A. I. Nekaris Asia Trade in Bengal Slow Lorises in Mong La, Myanmar, on the China Border ......................................................................................... 139 Vincent Nijman, Chris R. Shepherd and K. Anne-Isola Nekaris Distribution and Current Status of the Capped Langur Trachypithecus pileatus in India, and a Review of Geographic Variation in its Subspecies ...............................................................................................................................................................143 Anwaruddin Choudhury Population Status of Phayre’s Langur Trachypithecus phayrei in Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary, Tripura, Northeast India ......159 Doki Adimallaiah, K. Thiyagesan and A. K. Gupta Distribution and Relative Abundance of the Slender Loris Loris lydekkerianus in Southern Kerala, India ..................................... 165 Ramamoorthy Sasi and Honnavalli N. Kumara Population Status of the Endangered Lion-tailed Macaque Macaca silenus in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India .......................................................................................................................................................................171 Hosur Subbarao Sushma, Rohini Mann, Honnavalli N. Kumara and Arumugam Udhayan Population Dynamics of a Reintroduced Population of Captive-Raised Gibbons (Hylobates lar) on Phuket, Thailand .......179 Petra Osterberg, Phamon Samphanthamit, Owart Maprang, Suwit Punnadee and Warren Y. Brockelman Obituaries Geza Teleki (1943–2014) ..................................................................................................................................................................189 Robert S. O. Harding Pius A. Anadu (1940−2014) .............................................................................................................................................................191 John F. Oates Primate Conservation 2014 (28): 1–8 Diversity, Abundance and Habitats of the Primates in the Río