Animal pictures gallery - featuring rainforest animals

Animal pictures - squirrels.
The teddy bear like appearance of a giant squirrel (Ratufa indica) is accentuated as it leans over a branch munching contently on its food.

Giant Squirrel Feeding

Animal pictures- squirrels.
Adorable animal pictures. A baby flying squirrel, or Colugo, peeps out curiously from its pouch. This looks awfully high from the ground mummy!

Baby Flying Squirrel

Animal pictures - Wild Boar.
Muddy animal pictures. A wild boar (Sus scrofa) making its way upriver from a bay by a Malaysian rainforest after a nights feeding.

Foraging Wild Boar

Reptiles - Monitor lizard.
Animal world predator. The lightning fast tongue of a monitor lizard strikes out into the undergrowth capturing its target with predatory precision.

Lizard Predator

Rainforest animals - Dusky leaf monkey.
The beautiful doll like eyes of a dusky leaf monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) shine out from within the leaves of its rainforest home.

Rainforest Monkey

Primates - Long-tailed macaque.
A young long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) sits forlornly amidst the glistening sea, drenched from a crab hunting session amongst the rocks.

Drenched Macaque

Animal pictures - fruit bat.
A fruit bat (Pteropus giganteus ariel) dangles from its berry tree, unimpressed with being interrupted from its lunch of ripe, juicy red berries.

Fruit Bat

Reptiles - Oriental Garden Lizard.
I am a tree . . . A lizard perches completely motionless amidst the branches of a beach napuka attempting to blend into invisibility.

Iguana Portrait

Primates - Dusky leaf monkey.
Animal world feeding. A Dusky leaf monkey munches on a tasty young leaf displaying less than perfect teeth as it feeds with hearty gusto.

Hearty Lunch

Rainforest animals - Long-tailed macaque.
Unusual animal pictures. An adult macaque with only one remaining eye rummages atop a rainforest tree nibbling contently on the tasty leaves.

One Eyed Macaque

Rainforest animals - Long-tailed macaque.
Day dreaming the afternoon away. Just like teenagers everywhere, a young macaque idly enjoys a few hours of lazy contemplation.

Day Dreaming Macaque

Primates - Long-tailed macaque.
Motherhood. A young macaque snuggles into the warmth of a furry chest as it gazes out into the world, safe in the knowledge of its mothers love.

Mother & Child

Reptiles - Monitor Lizard.
There are over 70 species of Monitor Lizard. Generally large lizards, they have long necks, powerful tails and claws, with well-developed limbs.

Clouded Monitor Lizard

Rainforest animals.
The beautifully detailed markings of a flying lemur or Colugo blend perfectly into the bark of a rainforest tree as it rests from the afternoon sun.

Portrait of Colugo

Wales - Welsh Pony.
Welsh pony contently munching on the long grasses of a bog in rural Wales. Welsh Ponies are known for their large eyes and good termperment.

Baby Doll Eyes

Reptiles - Monitor lizard.
A Monitor lizard takes a well deserved break, basking in the sunshine, safely perched atop an termite mound high up in a tree top.

Comfy Respite