I’ve sent a few photos of these Asian elephants before. Here they are play fighting in a river at Tangkahan National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Time for the obligatory monthly orangutan post. This guy is the alpha male at Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo. He’s big, strong and has a really nice hairdo.

With all the polar bears I’ve been posting lately, it seemed a little color was in order to break up the white. This mother orangutan seemed quite content to be alive and well and raising her family in such a fine jungle. Taken in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.

I suppose the best way to wash an elephant is to just get on top of it with a scrub brush. This was taken in Sumatra, Indonesia where the domestic elephants really seem to enjoy their daily cleanings. It sort of reminded me of a dog rolling over to have it’s stomach rubbed.

This newborn orangutan looks like it just discovered where its next meal is coming from. The photo was taken in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.

Today will be the last post for a couple of weeks as I head down to Brazil tomorrow in search of jaguars, giant river otters, anteaters and other creatures. In the meantime, here’s one more baby orangutan until I get back.

This little guy is called a Thomas’s leaf monkey, also known as a Thomas’s langur. The astute among you may have guessed that some dude named Thomas discovered the species and that they like to eat leaves. Yes and yes. This one was photographed in Sumatra at a place called Bukit Lawang National Park.

Next time you think that humans don’t age gracefully, just be glad you’re not a bearded pig. I’ve posted a few of the young ones in the past, and they’re actually quite good looking. As for the adults… well, you’re looking at one. These guys would follow around the orangutans in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo, cleaning up food scraps as they went along.

I had a request for another spectral tarsier, so here it is. It was actually quite dark when I took this one (tarsiers are nocturnal), but I used a tripod and a long exposure to take advantage of what little light there was (mostly from the full moon). Like the black-crested macaque from yesterday, these guys live in Tangkoko National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Not much to say here, just a simple portrait of a rather suave looking black-crested macaque.