My sister Mo requested a tarsier this week, so I figured I’d go one better and post a baby tarsier. This little thing couldn’t have been much bigger than a softball. For the most part it had been clinging to, and hiding behind its mother, but at one point it jumped over to another branch and I was able to get a few shots in the clear. For those not paying attention to the last tarsier post, these guys are one of the smallest primates in the world, and this particular species of tarsier — the spectral tarsier — lives only on a couple of Indonesian islands. I photographed this guy in Tangkoko National Park on the island of Sulawesi.

Borneo is home to one of the oldest rainforests in the world — even older than the Amazon. Hiking through the  jungle there was quite an experience — and although I almost exclusively point my camera at animals, I couldn’t help but grab a few shots of plants in between orangutan sightings. I’m not sure of the exact species of this palm, but its fronds were big — six feet wide, or so, big.

This is a green-crested lizard from the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It appears to be focused on something above, perhaps a butterfly or moth, its most common prey.

Back for another post, my favorite primate, the black-crested macaque, this time letting out a big yawn. For those new to the blog, these guys are critically endangered and live in Tangkoko National Park in the extreme northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.  

This is an agile gibbon, also known as a black-handed gibbon. You can tell that this one is a male by the white cheeks.  He was quite habituated and very curious about me and my guide. In fact, he was hanging only about a foot or so from the front of my wide angle lens when I took this picture. We were in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.

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.

  It’s been a while since I sent a non wildlife or nature shot so I figured I’d get one in today. Just a couple of fisherman on a hazy morning in Indonesian Borneo.