Sri Lanka is home to five species of primates, the toque macaque (Macaca sinica), purple face langur (Semnopithecus vetulus), grey langur (Semnopithecus priairi) and two species of slow loris (Loris tardigradus, L. ...
Ranaweera, K.G.N.U.(University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, 2015-12)
Environmental criminology is a popular criminological subfield that focuses on identifying the impact of environmental factors on various criminal acts. The paper aims to identify similar relationship with reference to ...
Wijekoon, K.S.C.; Wijekoon, W.A.S.(University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, 2015-12)
Industrial sector plays an important role in the economic development of the country. It consists of medium and small industries which contributes 90 % to the industrial sector in Sri Lanka and considered as the mechanism ...
Madhubhashini, D.A.D.; Samarasekara, K.M.S.(University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, 2015-12)
Natural Environment as well as the social component of the society is being changed rapidly and as a result we are able to witness many differences between current peasant societies and peasant societies that existed 25 ...
Nahallage, Charmalie(Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies, 2015)
Anthropoid primates In Sri Lanka belong to the group of Old World Monkeys in the family Cercopithecidae. The more omnivorous macaques belong to the sub-family Cercopithecinae and the folivorous two langur species to ...
Ananda, Tharaka; Nahallage, Charmalie(Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, Colombo 07, 2015-03-26)
Saparagamu Maha Saman Devalya was known as "Saparagrama Vihara" until a minister of King Parakumba II (1236 - 1271 CE), Arya Kamadewa, built a "devalaya" to God Saman as a result of the achievement of a vow made to this ...
Ananda, Tharaka; Nahallage, Charmalie(University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, 2015-05-21)
Sri Lanka is a country with diverse cultural, ethnic, religious and social groups. Some of these minority groups have distinctive religious practices and belief systems due to being isolated from the main society for a ...
Nahallage, Charmalie; Huffman, Michael A.; Kumara, Raveendra(Kyoto University, Japan, 2015-07-18)
The endemic Purple- faced leaf langur in Sri Lanka is represented by four sub species. Of the four sub species, the western purple faced leaf langur [Trachypithecus vetulus nestor- Bennet, 1835) has grayish black pelage ...