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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Animal count

Whilst in Taman Negara, the oldest virgin rainforest in the world at 130 million years old, I saw the following:

Birds: BRIGHT blue kingfishers and loads of unidentified warblers.

Insects and reptiles: spiders (big'ns), stick insects, millepedes, centipedes, termites, leeches, scorpions, crickets, grasshoppers, praying mantis, cicadas, monitor lizard.

5-striped palm squirrelMammals: elephant (one of fewer than 200 left in Taman Negara), wild boar, samba deer, mouse deer, slow loris, giant squirrel, striped squirrel.

And rats in our hide. An adolescent rat spent a lot of time trying to navigate the rafters carrying a candle twice its length. What on earth could a teenage rat want with a candle?!

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