National Geographic’s 2017 Nature Photography Contest Winner

National Geographic's 2017 Nature Photography Contest Winner

Face to face in a river in Borneo Photograph by Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan

While looking for wild orang-utans in Tanjung putting national park, Indonesia, we witnessed this amazing sight of this huge male crossing a river despite the fact there were crocodiles in the river. Rapid palm oil farming has depleted their habitat and when pushed to the edge these intelligent creatures have learnt to adapt to the changing landscape, This is proof considering orang-utans hate water and never venture into a river. I got into the 5 feet deep river to get this perspective.