{"id":601,"date":"2011-04-01T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/?p=601"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:03:01","slug":"sepilok-rainforest-to-mangrove-part-3-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/sepilok-rainforest-to-mangrove-part-3-of-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepilok Rainforest to Mangrove (part 3 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from part 2…<\/a>
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Long-Tailed Macaques<\/h3>\n

It was a late afternoon in Sepilok Laut Reception Center. “The bad guy is coming!” the forestry guide warned me, “Do NOT leave any belonging outside your room.”<\/p>\n

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Then I saw a long-tailed macaque sitting in the wood about 15 Meters away from us. It looks so kind, with a face like a friendly Santa Claus. In fact, macaques can be so aggressive that even the big orangutan doesn’t dare to agitate them.<\/p>\n

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After observing us cautiously for a while, this monkey came closer to our building and sneak under our platform, peeping us through the gaps of the boardwalk.<\/p>\n

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Then the rest of the cheeky monkey followed. The guide told me that just a few days ago, these monkey stole the syringe and medication of a tourist, who has diabetes, and ran into the forest. The monkey also knows how to open a door.<\/p>\n

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There is also a group of red-leaf monkey living nearby, but they are very shy and seldom come near to the building.<\/p>\n

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“This is an alpha male,” the guide says, “We call him Paul.” Indeed, Paul is relatively larger than other monkey in his gang. Look at the size of his balls!<\/p>\n

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The guide wanted to get Paul closer to me for a mug shot session, so he gave Paul a pack of chocolate biscuit. Paul came forward to accept the offering and enjoyed the biscuit only 5 feet in front of us.<\/p>\n

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The expression of monkey is so rich and human-like. Of course I got a lot of good\/funny photos. It is not advisable to feed them. If they are too used to human, they will attack anyone who carries food and become a nuisance to tourists. For now, they are still wild.<\/p>\n

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\nThat’s a female monkey on the roof. Probably the wife of Paul.<\/p>\n

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In the mudflat not far away from our building, a few baby long-tailed macaques busy searching for food. They also eat crab. That’s why they are also known as Crab-Eating Monkey.<\/p>\n

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And there was a big monitor lizard stalking on these little monkey. It is very smart. It stayed still whenever the monkey looked at its direction.<\/p>\n

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But too bad the monkey still discovered the lizard and making alert call to warn others.<\/p>\n

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Mission failed, so the disappointed lizard retreated into the mangrove.<\/p>\n

After meal hour, those monkey groomed one another. They are so relax and don’t even bother about us. I even heard their annoying screeching noise during bedtime.<\/p>\n

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If you want to see more monkey faces, check out the video below:
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