proboscis monkey, long-nosed monkey (Nasalis larvatus) Plate XXXVII. Proboscis Monkey Nasalis larvatus.
Date 1897
Source Handbook to the Primates, Vol. II. http://archive.org/details/handbooktoprimat02forb
Author Henry Ogg Forbes (1851-1932). Species Plates by John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912).
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handbook_to_the_Primates_Plate_37.jpg
The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or long-nosed monkey, known as the bekantan in Indonesia, is a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey that is endemic to the southeast Asian island of Borneo. This species of monkey is easily identifiable because of its unusually large nose.
