Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo Hi gang! I’ve just wrapped up my first week at Danum Valley, and I have to say that it is everything everyone told me it would be. In a word: spectacular. We’ve seen rhinoceros hornbills, black and red broadbills, spiderhunters, reticulated pythons, and 23 species of frogs, including six species of tree frogs, just to name a few. Not to mention that we have been seeing elephant footprints and dung all over the place! There’s a group of students here now that have seen them repeatedly, but we have yet to come face to face with them…I’ll keep you posted. The forest here is some of the best primary lowland rainforest I have ever seen, and it reminds me of why I fell in love with tropical research. When
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