wanderoo

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wanderoo (won-duh-ROO) - n., the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) of southwestern India; any of several purple-faced langurs (genus Semnopithecus) of Sri Lanka.


The macaque is better known and more endangered -- it is black or dark furred, with a long white or gray beard encircling the face, thus:

Lion-tailed macaque, or wanderoo
Thanks, Wikimedia!

The name is from Sinhalese vanduru, plural of vandurā, monkey, from Sanskrit vānaraḥ, forest-dweller.

---L.

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