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 A silvery langur and its baby.trail with a hope of spotting more orangutans. Along the trail Robet pointed to several trees at a number of orangutan nests which were built, used, and abandoned by the apes. Robet explained that orangutans build nests from branches, twigs, and leaves high up on the trees to rest during the day and at night. They hardly returned to the same nests that had been used and would build new nests as they move to a new area in search of food.Robet then pointed at an orangutan nest and said in a low voice that an orangutan was in that nest. As we raised our cameras at the nest, an ape-like figure leapt from the nest as I pressed the shutter of my camera and managed to have one image showing an orangutan leaving the nest. We continued our trek, and fifteen minutes later we heard the snapping sound of twigs being broken ahead. As we approached the source of the sound, Robet pointed at a full grown orangutan sitting alone on a tree branch breaking and collecting twigs of various sizes apparently in the process of building a new nest. I managed a few shots of that orangutan before we ended our first day of the successful discovery of orangutans in the Sumatran rainforest.The next day Robet led us to a different area of Gunung Leuser National Park where we saw a few Thomas’s langurs A male long-tailed macaque.A female long-tailed macaque suckling its baby.‚Elite+ 45