Slender-Tailed Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)

Slender-Tailed Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)

Meerkats wake at sunrise and use their flat chests as a solar panel to warm their bodies.

Slender-Tailed Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)

Once warm, they spend most of the day foraging for food. As the sun goes down meerkats return to their burrow and keep warm by sleeping in a group.

Slender-Tailed Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)

Meerkats take turns as a lookout sentry, usually on top of a rock or termite mound. Short cheeps aindicate safety, while sharp barks warn of an approaching predator.

Slender-Tailed Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)

When threatened, meerkats either run for the safety of a burrow, or band together, hissing an djumping as a group in an effort to intimidate the predator.

Slender-Tailed Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Gibbons are apes not monkeys.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Their long arms and hands are perfectly adapted to life in the forest canopy.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

The Silvery Gibbon has already lost 99% of its original rainforest habitat and the pressure on the remaing forest is extreme.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Whilst Java's human population is over 120 million, Silvery Gibbons number less then 2000 spread over just a few isolated patches of forest.

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates moloch)