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Silver Grey Langur Monkey poses for the camera as it moves from tree to tree at the Yala Forest in sri lanka
Trentham Monkey Forest is a 60 acre area with 140 free roaming Barbary Macaques. You get to wander amongst them - no bars and no glass between you! Awesome! Oh - and they currently have 12 babies!
A monkey (I forgot the name) from Chester Zoo, I used a zoom and of course I didn't use a flash or anything to upset it
They were braver than they should be. We as people ruin it when we give them an unnatural food source and they loose their fear. They didn't get close enough to touch, but it is obvious that they should have stayed father away then they did. This was brought in as close as I could. Sorry about the bumpiness. It is hard to film holding the camera over your head and watch them!
A distinctive trait of this monkey is the male's large protruding nose, from which it takes its name. The big nose is thought to be used in mating and is a characteristic of the males, reaching up to 7 inches in length. The females also have big noses compared to other monkey species, but not as big as the males. Besides attracting mates, the nose serves as a resonating chamber and works by amplifying their warning calls. When the animal becomes agitated its nose swells with blood, making warning calls louder and more intense.
The Proboscis monkey can be found in island of Borneo in South-east Asia but they are not even found throughout all of Borneo. Due to ongoing habitat loss and hunting in some areas, only about 7000 are known to still exist in the wild. The Proboscis Monkey is evaluated as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [Wikipedia]
Taken in the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Reserve, one of the few places in the world where you can still see a proboscis monkey in the wild.