Borneo and Singapore
Report from my trip to Borneo (Kuching, Kota Kinabalu and Brunei) and a short stopover in Singapore. Apologies in advance for the overwhelming number of reptile records – after all, the main focus of the trip was the local herpetofauna.
Borneo and Singapore report
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Eduardo Ruiz
I met the same local wildlife enthusiast that you in December 2024 in Singapore, he showed me your picture of the sunda pangolin and shared his tips and i actually found one the only night i had to try this (at 03:20 am in my case), I spent around 10 minutes walking with him/her and seeing how he/she eats, climbs small trees, etc… I have been to Borneo twice without luck with pangolin and wouldn’t have thought Singapore would be a better for the pangolin but this was for me the best wildlife encounter in terms of quality and amount of time of sighting of a rare species in my life.
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AnnaB
Exactly! I wasn’t expecting it at all. I’m definitely planning to do a few days layover in Singapore whenever I can on my way to Asia. They even said they saw slow lori in a similar place as the sunda pangolin – I also saw something that didn’t behave like a civet, but disappeared into the canopy of a tree. I spent the whole night there until around 4 a.m. But I certainly wasn’t bored, every few steps you found something interesting.
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Daan Drukker
Hi Anna, great stuff, but there are some small mistakes which may be good to point out in order to avoid confusion. You saw Callosciurus orestes (and with a good photo), but the English name of this species is “Borneo Black-banded Squirrel” and not “Kinabalu Squirrel”, which is much rarer and looks very different (Scientific name of that species is Callosciurus baluensis).
Furthermore the caption on page 6 reads Plantian Squirrel, but shows a Common Treeshrew (the picture above it indeed shows a Plantain Squirrel).
Cheers,
Daan
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craig9563
Great report, thanks. I’ve been to Singapore several times but need to go back to explore at night!
Craig.