Even though they are known as " douc langurs ", they are in fact more closely related to the proboscis monkey and snub-nosed monkeys than to any of the langurs.
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Arne Lennart Cornelius, 21, from Bremen, vanished Aug . 30 with Malaysian guide Joseph Mohd Faisal, also 21, after they entered the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary on Borneo's northeastern coast.
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Arne Lennart Cornelius, 21, from Bremen, vanished Aug . 30 with his guide Joseph Mohd Faisal, also 21, after they entered the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary on Malaysia's eastern Sabah state.
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Arne Lennart Cornelius, 21, from Bremen, disappeared Aug . 30 with local guide Joseph Mohd Faisal, also 21, after they entered the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary on Malaysia's northeastern Sabah state.
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In addition to orangutans and proboscis monkeys, the park is also home to gibbons, macaques, clouded leopards, sun bears, pythons, birds, including hornbills and kingfishers, and insects, such as the giant Bornean butterfly.
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The area is wet and humid and the swampy lowlands are home to particularly high densities of Borneo's more emblematic birds and mammals, such as hornbills, Borneo elephants, and the endemic proboscis monkey.
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The catastrophe also resulted in losses of habitat, biodiversity, flora and fauna, including Sumatran tigers, Malayan sunbears, proboscis monkeys, orangutans, Storm's stork, the false gavial and other species of animals as yet unidentified.
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Cornelius had been conducting research over the past week on proboscis monkeys in the swamp-filled forest, about 30 kilometers ( 19 miles ) from Sandakan town on the east coast of Sabah state on Borneo.
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Arne Lennart Cornelius, 21, from Bremen, vanished Aug . 30 with Malaysian guide Joseph Mohd Faisal, also 21, after they entered the 300-hectare ( 741-acre ) Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary on the northeastern coast of Borneo Island.
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While on the subject of the perception of Dutch people abroad, the Indonesians nicknamed the proboscis monkey'Orang Belanda', meaning'Dutchman', because of the big noses and bellies . : ) DirkvdM 07 : 38, 16 November 2006 ( UTC)
