Members of this genus are confined to the primary rainforests of Palawan, Leyte and Mindanao.
For example, in the primary rainforest of Gabon, there are four duikers of similar size: the black-fronted duiker (C. nigrifons), Peters' duiker (C. callipygus), bay duiker (C. dorsalis), and white-bellied duiker (C. leucogaster).
The 33-year-old was in Ecuador, after she spent a week in the primary rainforest of the Amazon.
The riverbank, eroded by powerful marine engines, has been shored up with metal pilings below scruffy new buildings, and the primary rainforest has been replaced by a thin scurf of secondary growth.
For orangutans and gibbons Home to the tallest tropical rainforest canopy in the world, Danum Valley is a hot, humid, intense place and one of the last stands of primary rainforest left in Borneo.
Home to the tallest tropical rainforest canopy in the world, Danum Valley is a hot, humid, intense place and one of the last stands of primary rainforest left in Borneo.
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, the highest point on the island at 163m, is one of only two patches of urban primary rainforest in the world (the other is in Rio de Janeiro).
WHY Widely known as one of the world's richest wildlife reserves, this remote location is the setting for 105,000 acres of lush primary rainforest, with the greatest variety of tree species on earth, mammals such as capuchins and jaguars, and an incredible abundance of birdlife.
Doubles from £62 B&B, +506 2253 8118, selvabananito.com This locally owned glampsite is set in a 75-acre private reserve of primary rainforest, at the edge of the wild and wonderful Corcovado national park.
While the Danum largely consists of primary rainforest, secondary trees of similar beauty can be found in Tabin, where you will find 122,000 hectares of preserved land, enough birds to excite the most hard-bitten ornithologist and Sabah's three largest mammals: the Borneo elephant, Sumatran rhino and the tembadau, a local species of wild cattle.
