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Nasalis larvatus
These images are Sabah, Borneo where every night they are fairly easy to see from the river (by boat) when they come out of the forest to sleep in the trees.
Jungle along the river banks
Spotted on May 13, 2013
Submitted on May 13, 2013
11 Comments
Cool monkey!
Nice!
beautiful, amazing species
Fun fact! As well as sporting impressively large and fleshy noses (thought be scientists to be an echo chamber to amplify the males’ mating calls) proboscis monkeys are also excellent swimmers. They are capable of traveling across very deep water to find food or to escape approaching danger, and have evolved webbed feet and hands to help them outpace the crocodiles that are some of their main predators.
These highly specialized primates are endemic to some of Borneo’s most threatened landscapes and huge tracts of their habitat have been lost to deforestation in recent years. Their numbers are thought to have dropped by up to 80% in the last 3 decades and are continuing to decrease, with only around 7,000 remaining in the wild today.
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awesome !
Wow, fantastic! Beautiful spotting!
Great set of images Victoria : ) Lucky you!
Fantastic! All three photos are stunning - what an incredible creature :))
Hi Victoria. I got a real thrill seeing these guys in Kalimantan. Actually the purpose of the Habitat field is for you to describe the context of YOUR spotting. Each record or spotting in Project Noah is meant to be a data point. Information on general habitat and range of a species is widely available for many species on Wikipedia etc, but only you can supply the information about YOUR spotting. This is all detailed in the FAQs ( http://www.projectnoah.org/faq ) just seek out "What do I put in the fields?" Thanks!
Love those crazy noses
Fantastic !