Borneon Proboscis Monkey in its natural habitat 🐒
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📍Kinabatangan River
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"Excuse me, coming through...just passing by, don’t mind me…"
One of the most unique monkeys in the world and is endemic to the island of Borneo, the Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis larvatus) live in coastal mangroves, rivers, swamps and lowland rainforest that has freshwater within it. Because mangrove mud does not contain sufficient oxygen, plants cope in this environment by having roots that protrude upwards or exposed to air; it is defined as aerial roots. As captured in this interesting shot, the old world monkey is just passing by the aerial roots to get to the other side in this common scene at its habitat in Kinabatangan River.
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mangrove plants 在 Lee Yvonne Facebook 的精選貼文
A great escape from the hustle and bustle of city life and journeying through the rainforests 🌲
I had an eye opening experience learning about mangrove plants, their natural habitat and how they have an amazing salt coping mechanism whereby they filter out as much as 90 percent of the salt found in seawater as it enters their roots.