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Sungei
Yong.
This is still a rather
inaccessible and treacherous place but its really secluded. On our trip
there, we had it all by ourselves for 2 days. There are a series of
rapids and a pretty tall waterfall with deep pools.
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Gunung Pulai. the higher one (right, with my dad). This place has a nice lowland
Dipterocarp forest. I have sighted four species of primates here so far:
White handed gibbon, rhesus macaque, spectral leaf monkey and pig-tailed
macaque.
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A jungle millipede found in
the Panti swamp forest.
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reddish leaf Bulbophyllum auratum found on the lowland about 200m asl..
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A stream crossing at Gunung
Belumut. At the banks, small rheophytes
like Piptospatha
can be found as well as the elegant grass-like rheophytes shown
on this photograph. Around the rock boulders above the flood line,
Sonerila, Neekia malayana and a small fern-like orchid, Podochilus
microphyllus are found in abundance, as well as an occasional Gesneriad
(Chirita ?).
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stream above is very rich in fishes like T-barbs and rasboras. A
jungle walking catfish is also attracted to our offer of egg yoke. This
fish is so named as it is known to clamber rather long distances on land
from one stream to another. It is also a gluttonous creature.
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Aged trees
festooned with Birds nest fern at Upper Thomson Road, Singapore.
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tiny frog beside a stream is so confidently of its camouflage that it allows the camera
lens to move within 10cm from it. |
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A small
species unifoliate plant (Monophylleae sp) and its custers of tiny
flowers from the African Violet family (Gesneriads)
growing on large moist boulders in
Malaysia lowland. |
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flowering Gnetum vine with ants relishing the nectar. These plants have
remained unchanged since the dinosaur age.
買麻藤科
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