This is a red-knobbed hornbill from Tangkoko National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia. From the top of the head to the tip of the tail, these hornbills can be four to five feet long. It was quite a sight to see (and hear) them flying through the forest. Usually timid of humans, this particular bird allowed me to take quite a few photos before flying off.
To move through the jungle, orangutans don’t jump from branch to branch, but instead swing on vines and the flexible trunks and branches of thinner trees. This guy had just stopped to investigate my strange bald head, before swinging on past.
I figured I needed to break up all the Yellowstone posts, so here are a couple of Thomas Leaf monkeys from Bukit Lawang National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia.
The female proboscis monkeys that live in Borneo aren’t nearly as strange looking as the potato-nosed males, but still they’re not exactly lookers. To me they resemble The Timbertoes — I know, a very random reference that only people my age might recall from Highlights Magazine which was always in dentists’ and pediatrician’s offices when I was a kid. **This will be the last post until next Tuesday when I get back from a long weekend out in Yellowstone. Have a good Memorial Day.
I had a request on Friday for “less reptiles and more cute fuzzy animals.” Baby orangutans are always a good bet in such a situation. Like any kid, this young guy was a bit of a mess. Photo taken at Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.
It seemed about time for another orangutan mother and baby photo of the day. This mother was being extremely gentle with her newborn, carefully cradling the baby’s head as she readjusted position. As with all my orangutan shots, this one was taken in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.
Indonesia is famous for its hornbills but halfway through my trip I still hadn’t seen any. This was one of the first I was able to capture, silhouetted against the rising sun in Tanjung Puting National Park in Kalimantam, Borneo..
If you’ve been checking out my posts for a while, you know that the black-crested macaques are one of my favorite subjects. They are listed as critically endangered, having lost 80% of their population in the last 40 years. This one seems to be contemplating that fact. The reason for the population decline is mainly due to habitat loss. They live only in Tangkoko National Park on the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
This baby spectral tarsier appears to be communicating something to its mother. These tiny primates are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN red list of endangered species, mainly due to a rapid loss of habitat. This was taken in Tangkoko National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
