Almost All Creatures Great and Small, of Sabah, Borneo

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February 22nd 2012

Published: April 3rd 2012

A fair portion of our time in any foreign land is spent seeking out experiences that can’t be enjoyed back home. Strange food and drink; different cultures; warm water for swimming and diving; ancient temples and monuments; bizarre vegetation and not least, animals that are either rare, or scare. Scientists and wildlife photographers dedicate their lives to various different creatures. We turn ... Read Full Entry

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Gibbon

After no success on the first day, the waiting paid off on the second. There were three very high in the tree.

Blue-eared Kingfisher

We think that’s correct

Strange centipede

Tree frog

Black-eyed Kingfisher

This colourful little bird was fast asleep!

This funny-looking little bird was asleep too, hiding under a leaf so as not to get wet in any rain.

Tiny Limnonectes Finchi frog, with microscopic tadpoles

This unusual male frog carries its tadpoles in a little pouch on its back.

Dawn on the river

Another gibbon!

Doing its funky stuff

Large lizard looking for something on the river bank.

Stork-billed Kingfisher in flight

Pygmy Elephant

These are still pretty big! At Lok Kawi Wildlife Park Apparently a small herd are spotted about once a year near Uncle Tan’s jungle camp.

Baby Orang-utan

Lok Kawi Wildlife Park

Orang-utan eating in the shade

Lok Kawi Wildlife Park

Otters at feeding time

Lok Kawi Wildlife Park

Our old friend (first met at Bako NP), the Proboscis Monkey

Lok Kawi Wildlife Park. We did see these at Kinabatangan, but it was at dusk, and we didn’t have a torch.

Water Buffalo

Ubiquitous in south-east Asia.

Ben’s left hand. Oh, a black butterfly too.

A huge Tiger

Lok Kawi Wildlife Park.

Sun Bears

The female desperately trying to avoid the male’s attention! The smallest of the bears. Lok Kawi Wildlife Park.

Sun Bears

The female desperately trying to avoid the male’s attention! The smallest of the bears. Lok Kawi Wildlife Park.

20th August 2012

Daniel W.
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Perhaps you can visit the local food too
Perhaps you can spend more time at West Coast of Sabah where there are more adventures and fascinating things to check out. Stay out from city unless you're into tasty culinaries ;)

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