Kinabatangan River — Borneo Night Cruise
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A Kinabatangan River boat cruise at night — a proboscis monkey photographed by spotlight sleeping on a riverside branch 3 metres above the Sabah river, the dense riverine forest immediately behind, another boat’s light visible upstream.
Description
The Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, supports one of Southeast Asia’s highest concentrations of wildlife per accessible river kilometre — proboscis monkeys, orangutans, pygmy elephants, and crocodiles all visible from river boats in the oxbow lake system. The night cruise from the lodges operates by spotlight, the guides scanning the riverbank vegetation for mammals and birds using the spotlight beam. This image was made at 9pm using the spotlight as the key light and a 70-200mm telephoto at 1/250 second — the spotlight provides sufficient illumination for a sharp freeze of the sleeping proboscis monkey’s position on the branch. The monkey’s distinctive bulbous nose — the largest nose of any primate species — and its orange and grey pelage are legible in the spotlight beam. The darkness behind communicates the night jungle context without obscuring the subject.
