Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Gomantong Caves, and Sukau, Sabah, Malaysia, December 1999

Tabin Wildlife Reserve: Bull elephant checking me out

Because he had to protect his family

Tabin: Lonpary: now deceased (I don't want to talk about it.)

Tabin: Oriental hornbills

Tabin: Water monitor: I just finished bathing 100 yards downstream.

Tabin: Pig-tail macaque

Tabin: Pig-tail macaque

Gomantong Caves: reeks of ammonia because of the bat guano 

Gomantong Caves: note the people below. Each year swift nests are collected for birds nest soup

Gomantong Caves: Countless cockroaches feed off the bat guano

Gomantong Caves: This wild orangutan gets as much enjoyment watching people as we get watching him.

Sukau Lodge on the Kinabatangan River (this is the place to see proboscis monkeys and crocodiles)

Sukau: Long-tail macaque

Sukau: poisonous dog-tooth cat snake above my boat

Sukau: looks like a croc, but is really a giant water monitor

Sukau: Troop of proboscis monkeys

Sukau: Proboscis monkey

Sukau: Rhinoceros hornbills