Rare silvered langur spotted ‘zoning out’ in Clementi in first such sighting in Singapore


Final-year NUS student Tony Ng snapped a few photographs of the male silvered langur, which was alone. - TONY NG

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A stroll around campus for one student serendipitously led to an encounter with a silvered langur on Sept 5, marking the first reported sighting of the monkey here.

Prior to this, there have been no records of the species in Singapore, according to the National Parks Board (NParks).

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