US zoo gives endangered baby langur Vietnamese name
By Phan Anh January 20, 2021 | 06:15 pm GMT+7
A video still of Quy Bau, a François' langur born at Philadelphia Zoo, the U.S., on December 13, 2020.
Photo courtesy of Philadephia Zoo.
An endangered langur native to China and Vietnam born at Philadelphia Zoo last month was named Quy Bau, meaning "precious" in Vietnamese.
The baby François' langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) was born on Dec. 13, the first birth of the species at the facility, Philadelphia Zoo wrote on its Facebook fanpage.
"We've named her Quý Báu (pronounced "Qwee-bow" ), which means "precious" in Vietnamese," it said, adding François' langurs are native to southern China and northern Vietnam and classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
A video of Quy Bau posted on the zoo’s Facebook account on Jan. 16 received around six million views, over 142,000 reactions and 16,000 comments. Many expressed their congratulations and adoration toward the baby langur.
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Awwwwww.
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I have always had mixed feelings about zoos, etc. one of my first zoo experiences was at the Central Park Zoo when I was a young girl. I’m 74 now. I remember looking at this beautiful beast, a tiger, walking back and forth in a small cage.
I can still see it now. 
