Key Facts:
- Funded by Central Zoo authority, an isolated and an isolated and undisturbed site within the zoo was chosen to provide a natural habitat for the primates with a golden coat endemic to Assam.
- The zoo authorities had shifted a pair of golden langurs — Bolin and Lovely — from the display enclosure to the isolated which resulted into birth of female infant.
- The golden langur (Trachypithecusgeei) is currently endangered.
Apart from a 60 square mile area in northwestern Assam, small populations are found in Bhutan and Tripura.
