TIME BUDGET AND ACTIVITY PATTERN OF CAPPED LANGUR(TRACHYPITHECUSPILEATUS) IN BARAIL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY,ASSAM, INDIARofik Ahmed Barbhuiya, Nazimur Rahman Talukdar and Parthankar ChoudhuryAbstract Time allocations for different activities of Capped langurs are depending on the environmental and habitatconditions. We observed time budgeting of Capped langurs for various activities on daily, monthly, seasonaland yearly basis from January 2017 to December 2019 in Barail Wildlife Sanctuary of Assam, India. Focalanimalsampling technique was used to record the diurnal active time spent by T. pileatus for differentactivities. From the observation it has been found that langur spent maximum time for resting (45%) followedby feeding (34%), locomotion (11%), grooming (5%) and others activity (5%). The amount of time allocatesfor different activities throughout the months was significantly different (F= 341.95, d. f = 4, P < 0.001).Time devoted to feeding was maximum in April (37%) and resting was 50% in August. In seasonal variation,it spent maximum (48%) time for resting in monsoon and lowest (41%) in winter. Highest (35%) feedingactivity was in winter and summer followed by lowest (32%) in monsoon and the seasonal variation of allthe activities was significantly varied. The diurnal time budget shows that it spent maximum (40.57%) timefor feeding in evening hours P < 0.001, while resting was highest (57.58%) between (10hrs-11hrs) andlowest (37.8%) in evening P < 0.001. |