Monday 15 November 2021

Borneo.


An estuarine crocodile, sliding into the water, and then - who knows where?







At a wildlife sanctuary

Black squirrel





A Sun Bear





All the photographs that follow are taken in the wild



Proboscis monkey

Egret









Early morning on the Kinabatangan River







A young ( 2year old) Orangutan




A monitor lizard resting on a branch - probably at least 1.5m long

Pygmy Bornean elephant









A full grown male Orangutan, known as a Flange Male because of the face pads










Hornbill

Female Orangutan at Gomantong. 

I can't remember what this creature was called, but from the end of it's back legs to the end of the feelers at the front, probably 20cm long, and lives in Gomantong cave, pictured below.


Denise, and Eryanto, our guide, stood at the top of a bat guano hill, looking up at a further, even bigger, guano hill. About a quarter of a million bats roost in the cave system.

The village buildings outside the cave are the homes of the locals that protect the caves and the local wildlife. This female and her baby are wild and free, and just happened to be around the buildings as we came out of the caves. 









Female Orang Utan just outside Gomantong cave, in the wild, but on the edge of a village.




 

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