10 April 2025

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.

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Borneo and Singapore report

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Anna Bauerová
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  • 10 April 2025
    craig9563

    Great report, thanks. I’ve been to Singapore several times but need to go back to explore at night!
    Craig.

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  • 11 April 2025
    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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    • 11 April 2025
      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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  • 11 April 2025
    Rudy Mateeuwsen

    Great report and photos! I will be visiting Singapore as well this summer as stopover to/from Australia. Not sure if you are willing to share (by DM/email) the name of your local wildlife enthusiast with me? Thanks, Rudy.

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  • 18 April 2025
    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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    • 29 May 2025
      Anna Bauerová

      Hi Daan, thanks for the corrections, I hope I fixed everything in the new version and it’s fine now.

  • 7 August 2025
    mattystouffer

    Hi Anna, thanks for the excellent report. I am heading to Singapore next week and, like others here, would be interested in connecting with the wildlife enthusiast you mention in your report. Please let me know if you’d be willing to put me in touch. Thanks!

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