If you thought that all monkeys are cute and cuddly you may want to think again and take a look at these fellas: bulbous noses, fat bellies, loud, constantly farting and perpetually aroused (but don’t we all know a couple of those guys from home?).

The story of Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary is one of the few positive examples in Borneo where a commercial plantation development was abandoned in favour of an endangered species found nowhere else in the world.

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Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary

“hmpf” *munch* “grmpf” *pffffft* “schmatz”

“huh?”

“who’s there”

“ha ha very funny … giving me rabbit ears on top of everything else”

“hmpf” *munch* “grmpf” *pffffft* “schmatz”

“oh nooo, he’s seen me! I better hurry now!” … boy are these guys loud when they trample across the boardwalks

lunch time (part 1)

lunch time (part 2)

kindergarten

mother baby group

“whoa! soo much food … time for my siesta”

“but someone has to watch the kids”

flying teenager monkeys

they are definitely not the most elegant monkeys, but they sure can jump!

some even took a flying dive in the pool!

time to dry up again after taking a bath

looks a bit like a clothes line for monkeys, right? 🙂

At the end of the day we enjoyed the trip to Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary even more that our visit at the orang-utan sanctuary, because these ugly farting monkeys were so much more fun to watch munching their sugar-free pancakes.

Labuk Bay is also home to several hornbills

the caretakers of Labuk Bay also prepared some lunch bites for the hornbills

“Ha! There was one yummy lunch drop left and you didn’t see it”