Proboscis monkey

The Proboscis monkey (nasalis larvatus )is a rare dwindling speices of monkey found in mangrove forests in Borneo island which is north of Singapore.
Borneo island is a huge rainforest island in eqautorial waters .
Large swathes of forested Indonesia some parts of Malaysia of Sabah Sarawak states and the small  country of oil rich Brunei .
If one goes in a motor boat in Brunei river from yayasan jetty in downtown Bandar to the not very far mangrove forests one can see them on tree tops .
Best time is morning and evening when they come out to feed .
During the hot humid daytime they probably rest .
They are so named because of the fleshy long nose shaped like a proboscis which incidentally is an antennae ..to probe..as nosy as your neighbour .
They have a large compartmentalised stomach with cellulose lined cavities in order to digest tge 95 % leafy diets .
Hence most have huge bellies
The posterior is red with a long thich tail .
They grow in 4 years live upto 20 years .
Our boatman took us to two good places sort of enclaves into mangroves cut the engine
The eerie silence of the jungle was only disturbed by the calls of a bird the flutter of wings of migratory birds the swish of something slimy and swift in the dark waters a scurry of a squirrel on a tree and then we saw them perched on top of trees eating the leaves like gluttons .
The first foto is from net tks
Rest by me the best i could take .
On return we went through the famous Kampong Ayer or water village with houses hospitals police statikn schools mosques and fire tenders .
And thus i sighted my last proboscis monkey in Brunei