The Last Home of Mentawai’s Primates
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
WILD rambutan was in season. Bundles of the red fruit were hanging from their trees along the banks of Bojokan River, larger in number than the green leaves. A small troop of bokoi or Siberut Macaques feasted on the rambutans that sunny afternoon just after the rains stopped, at the end of March. The five adult bokoi made quite a noise, occasionally letting out their unique whoops.
Endemic to Mentawai, the bokoi or Macaca siberu has dark-brown
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