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.

This is a white-handed gibbon in Bukit Lawang National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. These lesser apes were easily among the most difficult to photograph primates that I’ve ever come across. For several days I had unsuccessfully been trying to get a shot. I’d see the gibbon for a second and then it would be gone (or it would be too far away, or hiding behind foliage, etc). They were very wary of humans and usually fled before I even knew they were there. It became a bit of an obsession to get a shot and eventually I was rewarded this one quick look — not perfect, but in focus and in decent light. Gibbons are extremely agile in the trees with their long arms and after one click of the shutter this one disappeared.

This guy was probably my favorite orangutan at Tanjung Puting National Park in Borneo. His name was Percy and he always seemed to be nearby, hanging in a tree or laying on the grass and making faces (very human-like faces).

First of all, sorry about the flurry of broken link posts that were sent out yesterday at about 6PM. I was updating my site and messing with a few things and, well, you saw what happened. From now on, I’m going to deactivate my subscribers list when I’m doing maintenance. Please don’t unsubscribe. I promise, it won’t happen again… I think.

As for the post — just a few kids playing down by the river with an elephant. Apparently, that’s okay in Sumatra. Actually, the kids are children of the elephant handlers and to them, the elephants are pets that they grow up with.

A spectral tarsier mother and baby in Tangkoko National Park on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Here’s a young black-crested macaque with jazz hands. I’ve posted quite a few of these guys before. Their range is restricted to the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Too many non-animal, Italian landscape shots in a row. Here’s a nice moment between two orangutans to break things up a bit.