Who You Calling Big Nose?

Wonderful day involving a ridiculous number of monkeys, a river safari full of birds and lizards - but the favourites from today were the proboscis monkeys. Full of personality and in monkey circles, the bigger the nose the better! Between their bulbous noses and their pot bellies they are surely the comedy species of the monkey world.

Yet another endangered species with only 3000 recorded in Sabah and Sarawak, they are threatened with extinction. Attempts to keep proboscis monkeys in captivity have not been successful. The only place to see these monkeys are in their natural habitat, the rapidly disappearing mangrove forests of Borneo.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
Margaret J. Wheatley