Blue-eared kingfisher

Daily musings from Danum

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December 5th 2010
29 Nov On the way to our stream transect tonight, I spoke a bit with our Research Assistant Tambi about his plans to marry his girlfriend. I like learning about how relationships and marriages in other cultures work, and I hadn’t thought about Sabahan relationships in a while. He mentioned to me that in order to marry his girlfriend he has to save up money (about 10,000 ringgit, or about US$3000 ... read more

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more