Nature’s Close Up: A Bornean Primate Slideshow
Dec 26th, 2009 by wwftravel
One of two endangered great apes on Earth (the other being gorillas), orangutans are the largest arboreal mammals found on the planet today. While the orangutan tends to be synonymous with Borneo, it’s not the only primate inhabiting the rain forests of the world’s third-largest island.
In the first installment of our photo slideshow series, Nature’s Close Up, wildlife photographer and naturalist Ron Leidich shows us some of his top primate images from Borneo, where he and a group of WWF members not only observed orangutans in their natural habitat, but came across monkeys and macaques as well.
Protecting Orphaned Orangutans
Interested in traveling to Borneo? Learn more about our Into the Heart of Borneo tour, June 12-28, 2012.