I discovered my first orangutan high up in the trees in the early morning. I heard it before I saw it. I woke up branches cracks and some rather angry tree shaking going on. Luckily for me, I was on a boat, at a safe distance from the big, hairy, red orangutan who worked himself up into a right state.
I was Sekoyer river in Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, and my faithful guide, Nanang assured me, "are you quite sure. Orangutans can not swim, so we just this show back and enjoy contact. We are very happy to see this. He is the King, this guy. the great men fighting for dominance and territory and in this area they have a harem of females. this is so as for them works. "
I was in awe of this great primates of the jungle. He was swaying on the top floor canopy that rose 30 meters into the sky. Nanang words rang true, as we soon discovered three other orangutans; The much smaller females of the king. They were wonderful camouflaged and difficult to detect, wrapping their branch-like limbs around trees and blending perfectly. In their environment
orangutans and proboscis monkeys in a tree top | Photo by David Metcalf
connected Minutes from the orangutan sighting, a family of proboscis monkeys in this early morning spectacle.
There were seven of them, and she swung with self-indulgence through the trees, vines and thin branches grab on their way. They disappeared quickly in the dense jungle, and I left my morning coffee stop, the cold had gone to astonishment, what I just experienced.
Tanjung Puting National Park experience, you need to take a boat. They fly in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, and from there will meet your guide and a short drive take you to be your boatman justice. You need a minimum of three days. The park, which was founded in 1982, remains a truly wild and natural place. Your final destination is Camp Leakey, established an orangutan rehabilitation center in 1971; the oldest Orangutan Research and Conservation Centre in the world. The camp looks out of place orangutans that have been forced by deforestation, forest burning and the encroachment of agriculture from their natural habitat, including palm oil plantation expansion.
Photo by David Metcalf
Many of the orangutans are fed at the camp bottle, and some that come as orphans in a very emergency. Younger people require physical handling and touching, like a human baby, and the orangutan handler rock those little children sometimes for hours. Finally, they are nursed back to health and taught themselves to leave in the outdoors and in search of food, but before this can happen, they need the skills for survival in the jungle learning required. In this transition period, they have a little help, and three feed platforms positioned in the jungle.
I was only ten minutes after my walk when I heard a crash through the trees and found myself in the woods sharing way with three orangutans. It was very exciting and a little unnerving at the same time. The park ranger was our group accompanied assured us we were very safe. One came swinging through the trees and two trotted behind us walking on all fours her palms and fists. driving record, as they trudged past, they made a beeline for the platform, which was piled with bananas. Soon more orangutans for a feed collected. They ate, throwing banana peels, scratched her armpits, looked around and socialized himself.
When we were on the boat cruising up again the river dock looking for a place for the night, we were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a few gibbons that ended very nice day. As the sun was setting, a splendid lonely Hornbill cruised gracefully through on a steamy jungle airflow.
to connect the discovery of Tanjung Puting National Park on a slow boat is a quiet way with nature, birds and wildlife. to have to get close and personal with an orangutan that shares 97 percent of our DNA, the opportunity to be very humiliating leave with a feeling that we are somehow close in many respects to these great primates.
Fast Facts
Province: Central Kalimantan
Population: 2.3 million ( 2014)
size: 153,564.5 km2 - about 1.5 times the size of Java
Directions: Regular flights from Jakarta and several major cities to Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan
accommodation: houseboat or the Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge (now over 0 percent solar powered), Tanjung Puting National Park
What you should bring: mosquito repellent, sturdy shoes, long pants and shirt for evening mosquito repellent, hat, umbrella and camera
rep .: www.orangutandays.com - Contact Yomie www.visitorangutan.com - Contact Nanang
Other trekking sites in Kalimantan: Gunung Palung National Park and Sebangau National Park
Orangutan Facts
orangutans are endemic to Sumatra and Borneo. These great apes found highly intelligent and follow to be a cultural pattern. The Bornean species are larger and lonely compared to their Sumatran cousins. They have more rounded faces and adult males develop large cheek flanges, as they get older. In the wild they live to about 45 years, but in captivity they can be stored for up to 60 years. Men can grow tall and 100 kilograms and 1.4 meters, while females can weigh up to 50 kg, up to a height of 1.2 meters.
Borneo orangutans feed on fruits, including figs, durian, banana, leaves, bird eggs, honey and insects.
Borneo has to be threatened, the largest population of orangutans, today their species due to a shrinking habitat due to forest fires and the expansion of human settlement, oil palm plantations, mining, and caused hunted sold as pets.
David Metcalf running cultural trips to Kalimantan. David leads a tour on 18 to 23 May 2016 a cultural Dayak Festival, The Isen Mulang Festival, with 17 Dayak tribes. This trip includes a visit to the orangutans to see and a 3-day tiwah (traditional Dayak burial ceremony).
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