Practice question

Lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus is old world monkey with distinctive silver-white mane around face, black pelage, and tail tuft resembling lion tail, restricted to undisturbed tropical evergreen rainforests of Western Ghats between 100-1500 meters in Karnataka Silent Valley, Kerala Periyar, Tamil Nadu Kalakkad. Endemic to Western Ghats, highly arboreal, frugivorous, living in troops 15-30, endangered with fewer than 4000 individuals due to fragmentation by plantations, dams. Flagship for rainforest conservation, breeds poorly in captivity requiring canopy connectivity. This pattern is frequently tested in NCERT-based competitive examinations requiring precise recall of taxonomic hierarchy principles.