Animals on the Edge Blog
I’m not a celebrity … but get me out of here anyway
I arrived in Borneo on Sunday and headed straight to our camp in Sabah. It’s hot (around 35-degrees) and, worse, humid (about 90%). Dehydration is a constant problem and there are biting bugs and insects everywhere (not to mention snakes - we were greeted at camp by a black cobra). Borneo is, perhaps, better known for its surviving populations of orang utans. However, for this leg of the trip I am concentrating on an equally endangered but less known species, the proboscis monkey. Close to camp there are three groups - two family groups and a group of bachelor males - of these strange-looking but oddly alluring creatures, with their long, protruding snouts and wrinkled old-man looks. The photography starts in ernest tomorrow.
Posted on 04/15 at 04:55 AM
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