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 (15-
24 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 diterocarp-
kerangas 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