Hey, it's the monkeys

摘要

The proboscis monkey has a big nose, an even bigger belly and a huge survival problem. James Fair travels to the world's third largest island to find out whether primates could help to conserve its precious forests. MOST PEOPLE have played that game where they fantasise about what animal they would like to be reincarnated as. Don, a dolphin, perhaps, splishing and splashing around in a coral atoll somewhere in the Caribbean; or a tiger - grrr! - sleeping all day and padding through a gilded forest as evening falls. Well, having recently returned from Sabah, the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo, I can definitely cross one species off my list of future bodies to inhabit -the proboscis monkey.