Totally Protected

TOTALLY PROTECTED

WHAT IS T0TALLY PROTACTED? • defined as species which are in the danger of extinction due to hunting and habitat destruction. • They are now extremely rare. Everyone’s help and contribution is needed to ensure their survival in this world. • not be kept as pets, hunted, captured, killed, sold, imported or

The penalties for any of these • For a rhinoceros, a fine of RM50,000 and five years imprisonment. • For an orangutan or proboscis monkey, a fine of RM 30,000 and 2 years imprisonment. • For all other species, a fine of RM25,000 and 3 years imprisonment.

Nasalis larvatus

CHARACTERLISTIC • The male's nose are so large that they hang down over their mouths, reminding one of the old comic, Jimmy Durante. Sometimes they have to push it out of the way before putting something in their mouth. • Their noses swell and turn red when they become excited or angry. • They also make loud honking sounds as a warning when they sense

• They have reddish-brown fur on their back and shoulders, which ends at midsection . • Chests are creamy, with a creamy collar running around their neck and around their waist to their buttocks and tail. • Arms and legs have long, gray gloves and stockings. • Orange fur covers their shoulders and a cap of darker red fur covers their head.

• The male proboscis monkey is much larger and heavier than the female. • A male is 2 to 2.5 feet (66-72 cm) long, and weighs 35-51 lbs. (16-23 kgs), while a female is 1.7 to 2 feet (53-61 cm) long and weighs only (1524 lbs.) 7-11 kgs. • Their tails are as long as their body.

HABIT • Borneo’s mangrove forests, swamps, and even the lowland riparian forests. • Live in the mixed diterocarpkerangas forests, mangrove forests and lowland forests near fresh water and rivers • Basically move from area to area as they see the need to meet feeding

BEHAVIOR • preferring to be active from late afternoon until dark • primarily arboreal although they are never more than 600 m from a river • good swimmers and will leap out of the trees into the water. They are capable of swimming 20 m underwater • two types of groups ; unimale and all-male; 3 to 32 individuals • sleep 0 to 15 m from the river's

WHY THEY ARE TOTALLY PROTECTED? • mangrove swamps are being cleared and suitable monkey habitat is being reduced. • Vulnerable to hunting by local people who consider its meat a delicacy. • Become an important flagship species for conservations, as well as an ecotourist attraction, possibilly of parallel importance to the