Langurs of the past : rare file footage from the British era
- 5 years ago
India has traditionally been considered as heartland of macaques. It is distributed throughout the northern India upto some extent of central India, in a wide variety of habitat including tropical moist deciduous forest to subtropical pine belt of sub Himalayas, semidesert of Rajasthan, Mangrove swamps of Sunderban, West Bengal. In urban areas of India, they are found on roadsides, canal banks, in railway stations, villages, towns, and temples. In 1953, Corbett reported that more than 10 million of macaques were present in Uttar Pradesh state (a state located in northern India). Southwick et al. (1961) conducted the first ever survey of northern India and reported that there were less than 1 million macaques in Uttar Pradesh. In 1979 the Zoological Survey of India estimated the total rhesus population to be 183,000. Macaques were once seriously threatened by the rate of capture and export for use in biomedical research. In the 1960s, about 50,000 juveniles of macaques were trapped and shipped from India per year, crippling the population growth of macaques in India.
In 1978, a total ban on macaques export was the first step in reestablishing the population, and the numbers in India have more than doubled since the 1970s. There are still some macaques trapped and used for research within India, but the effect of the population is negligible compared to previous levels of usage. In 1988, Southwick & Siddiqui estimated the total macaques population to have increased due to the ban on trapping instituted by the Government of India in 1978 and to be in the vicinity of 410,000 - 460,000 individuals. As there have been no countrywide censuses after that there are varying opinions about the current macaques population in India. Southwick & Siddiqui (1994) believe that more than three millions of macaques were present in India and out of which 86 % were living near to human habitation.
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This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
This footage is displayed here as the copyright of the same has expired. WFIL lays no claim to the copyright of the same but as it is in the public domain, WFIL would like to share it with the world.
In 1978, a total ban on macaques export was the first step in reestablishing the population, and the numbers in India have more than doubled since the 1970s. There are still some macaques trapped and used for research within India, but the effect of the population is negligible compared to previous levels of usage. In 1988, Southwick & Siddiqui estimated the total macaques population to have increased due to the ban on trapping instituted by the Government of India in 1978 and to be in the vicinity of 410,000 - 460,000 individuals. As there have been no countrywide censuses after that there are varying opinions about the current macaques population in India. Southwick & Siddiqui (1994) believe that more than three millions of macaques were present in India and out of which 86 % were living near to human habitation.
Source : http://www.ipublishing.co.in/
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
This footage is displayed here as the copyright of the same has expired. WFIL lays no claim to the copyright of the same but as it is in the public domain, WFIL would like to share it with the world.