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Borneo 2022 Highlights- Mammals

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As a continuation of my last post, showing images of birds, this one will show mammal highlights from my last Natural Habitat Advenrures Borneo expedition, but I will save orangutans for their own separate post . The big draw to this trip are the orangutans, which never disappoint, but there is so much more…. Borneo is home to 222 species of mammals, 22 of which are endemic. Here are my best non-orang mammal images from this past trip.

One of the trip highlights
was seeing this beauitful leopard cat on a night drive in the Danum Valley.

Silver langur, or leaf monkey, Labuk Bay.

Bornean Grey Gibbon

Bornean Grey Gibbon, Danum Valley.

Red Leaf Monkey, Danum Valley.

Probocis Monkey, kinabatangan River.

Probocis Monkey, kinabatangan River.

Probocis Monkey, and the author, Labuk Bay.

Probocis Monkey, Labuk Bay.

Traveler Yi Wan Ching, Probocis Monkey, Labuk Bay.

Probocis Monkey, Labuk Bay.

Probocis Monkey, Labuk Bay.

This is a colugo, or flying lemur. They are not related to lemurs or primates at all, but are in their own separate family Dermoptera, meaning skin fliers. The huge flaps of skin you see between their legs, called patagium, are used to glide from tree to trree. Bako National Park.

Closeup of colugo. Bako National Park.

Tree shrew, Sepilok. Not actually shrews, and not rodents, these are small omnivorous mammals which live in southeast Asia. Very cool critters!

Tree shrew.

Sun bear basking in the sun, Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center (BSBCC) Sepilok. Read more about sun bears at BSBCC here.

the fantastic claws of the sun bear!

Red giant flying squirrel.

Big dominant male pig -tailed macaque, Sepilok.

Stay tuned for everybody’s favorite, Orangutans, in my next post.

Thanks Guys, Keep Exploring,

Brad


Brad has been a Natural Habitat Expedition Leader since 2005, guiding Alaska grizzly bear tours, Churchill polar bear tours, northern lights expeditions and China panda tours. His specialty is bear biology and ecology of the north country.

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