World’s Most Fascinating Primates

In order to photograph the world’s most fascinating primates in the wild, photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah have traveled the world. Check out these amazing primates. Enjoy.

Crab-Eating Macaque
This primate lives in Borneo in Malaysia. His yawn is a warning to aggressors.

Verreaux’s Sifaka
This member of the lemur family reaches for a tree stem in Madagascar.

Proboscis
A young male sits in a tree. This type is found only on the island of Borneo.

Crab-Eating Macaques
A family grooms and socializes. The babies are 2 to 4 weeks old.

Mandrill
A pair look through the foliage at a national park in Gabon.

Proboscis
It is thought that the large nose that gives the proboscis its name is used to attract females. The nose can reach 7 in. (18 cm) in length.

Verreaux’s Sifaka
Highly adapted to life in trees, the Verreaux’s Sifaka hops and balances as if on a branch when moving on solid ground.

Mandrill
This male is not fully mature. Photographed in Gabon, he makes a threatening grimace.

Mandrill
Mandrills are notoriously elusive. This female is walking with a suckling.

Gelada Baboons

In Ethiopia’s high plateaus, they photographed this pair of gelada baboons who have drawn close to each other for warmth.

Crab-Eating Macaque
A curious young male approaches the camera.

Gelada Baboon
Gelada baboons maintain sizable social groups larger than any other nonhuman primates’.

Gelada Baboon
Though not endangered, the gelada population is smaller than it once was. In 2009, the International Union for Conservation of Nature counted 200,000, less than half of the population in the 1970s.