Orangutan Mother and Child
A couple of generations of orangutans watching over the forest in Indonesian Borneo. It’s not hard to see that these two are clearly related.
Female Proboscis Monkey
The female proboscis monkeys don’t have the large potato-like noses of the males, but they’re still a bit odd looking. This one, however, seemed to think she was the shit with her black lipstick and all. She must have been eating some kind of dark fruit just before I took the photo.
Young Bearded Pig
At first these bearded piglets ran away from me but then slowly they came out of the forest to investigate, and eventually came so close that I was able to switch to my widest angle lens to get shots of them inches away sniffing the front of the glass. There were eight piglets in all as well as their blind mother who had lost both of her eyes somewhere along the way. An orangutan was in a tree just above them and was playfully swatting at the babies. Apparently, they live in harmony with each other and I had a few other sightings of adult pigs foraging for fruit closely behind the orangutans, picking up their scraps. The adults are truly ugly creatures (in a good way) and get their name from a thick beard around their snout.
Orangutan Mother and Baby
This infant orangutan was only a few days old when I took this shot. The mother was extremely gentle and attentive with the way she carried it around in a very human way. The baby seems almost defenseless and sick in this photo, but a few minutes later it was crawling around in the mother’s lap and breastfeeding.