Kota Kinabalu: To many people, the only place to see proboscis monkeys might mean a costly and time-consuming trip to the Kinabatangan on the east coast or the west coast mangrove belt starting from Klias.
Little do they know that there exists a colony of up to 30 proboscis monkeys within 10 minutes by boat from the city's waterfront.
Or to be more precise - in the mangrove swamps of Pulau Gaya, one of the five Tunku Abdul Rahman Park islands.
Sabah Parks Board Director, Paul Basintal, said the park's research unit found that the colony is among the natural wildlife inhabitants in the 15-sq km forested island.
It is probably the same colony where a male proboscis monkey rescued from drowning in waters off nearby Pulau Sapi on Saturday originated from, he said, when asked about the monkey rescue by a dive team during a trip to Sapi that day.
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