Dehradun, Oct. 19 -- On the Kinabatangan.

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

The jungle is deep, dense and damp to say the least. In Borneo we were inside a 140-million-year-old rainforest and, just like the Congo, it is home to a lot of mega fauna or large animals. And while the Amazon has the large feline predator in the muscular Jaguar, both Congo and Borneo are home to one large ape each. As some may know and some may not, apes are different from monkeys and the world has only 6 ape species left, of which 5 are the 'great apes' and 1 is categorised taxonomically as a 'lesser ape'. The 5 great apes are Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Homo Sapiens (us) and the 1 lesser ape is the Gibbon. Basically, on the e...