Long-tailed macaque, Macaca fascicularis Raffles, 1821 from Sabah / Borneo – Kinabatangan. Anyone of us who has ever been to Borneo has seen the long-tailed macaques more than once. In some national parks, they are even animals you don’t want…
Philippine slow lori, Nycticebus menagensis (Lydekker, 1893) of central Sarawak, around 1280m ASL. Right next to a logging road, this Slow Lori climbed through the branches. In the area where I was traveling I was hoping for Nycticebus kayan (Kayan River…
The endemic Thomas’s flying squirrel, Aeromys thomasi (Hose, 1900) of central Sarawak, around 1200m ASL. Locally, Aeromys thomasi can be very common, in some areas even more common than the red giant flying squirrel (Petaurista petaurista). The Thomas’s flying squirrel…
Red giant flying squirrel or common giant flying squirrel, Petaurista petaurista (Pallas, 1766) of south Sarawak, around 200m ASL.
Horsfield’s tarsier, also known as the western tarsier, Cephalopachus bancanus (Horsfield, 1821) of south Sarawak / Borneo
Northwest Bornean orang-utan, Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760), is one of the three sup-species of Pongo pygmaeus in Borneo. When you think of Borneo’s wildlife, the orang utan will come to your mind almost immediately. I’ve seen these forest people,…
The Philippine slow loris, Nycticebus menagensis (Lydekker, 1893) of south Sarawak, around 60m ASL. According to Munds & Nekaris et al (2013), there are four different species of Slow Loris in Borneo. The species in the photo is Nycticebus menagensis (Lydekker, 1893),…
The endemic Thomas’s flying squirrel, Aeromys thomasi (Hose, 1900) of south Sarawak, around 1000m ASL. Females of the Thomas’s flying squirrel reach a head-torso length of 343.3 mm, a tail length of 410 mm and a weight of 1117 g.…
Just a mouse? No, its the rare and endemic Ranee Mouse, Haeromys margarettae (Thomas, 1893), named after Margaret Brooke, the wife of the second white Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Brooke. just a cellphone shot (iPhone XS), location: north Sarawak, around…
The critical endangered Sunda pangolin, Manis javanica Desmarest, 1822 of central Sarawak / Borneo Below a thermal image of the sunda pangolin, Manis javanica.