Mischievous Macaques
Bako National Park is famous for its great wildlife. You can see the incredibly rare proboscis monkey, right outside your cabin. Other highlights are bearded pigs (they look weird!), monitor lizards, and — Macaques. These are small, grey monkeys that can be incredibly brazen. They will come into your room, open your backpack and steal whatever they can. And I am not even joking! You have to be careful to keep your door and windows closed when you are not around, to make sure they do not enter your room. You cannot keep laundry outside because they would come and steal it. Trash cans are specially made to be Macaque-safe. They literally steal everything they can get and then, later, check whether they have any use for it. You should see them, stuffing whatever they can get into their mouth and under their arms and afterwards still climbing trees. It’s crazy!
