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Proboscis Monkeys
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Proboscis Monkeys

Nasalis

The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or long-nosed monkey, known as the bekantan in Indonesia, is a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey with an unusually large nose. It is endemic to the southeast Asian island of Borneo.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Proboscis Monkey

speciesNasalis larvatus

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Proboscis Monkeys in Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.112

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43536.