The jungle man, the waterfall & the longhouse

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This centre is a tourism spot as it is the nearest place to Kuching (12 miles south of Kuching) where you can see the wild Orang utans.

Orang utan (Pongo pygmaeus) means "jungle man". It is a species of ape. It is very intelligent, very large (can grow up to 1.4 m tall), tail-less primate.

The daily feeding time for the orang utans is 9.00am to 10.00am in the morning and 3.00pm to 4.00pm in the afternoon. During the feeding time, the orang utans will come out from the jungle (lowland dipterocarp forest) to take and eat the fruits given by the staff of this wildlife centre.

More on this linK:

http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/orangutantrip.htm


**some shots are taken using digicam, Fujifinepix S5000. The rest are taken using digital SLR camera, Nikon D50.








A tourist is trying to throw an orange to this juvenile of orang utan. This intelligent orang utan knows that and it is ready to grab the orange by hanging upside down from on a tree branch.






The large male orang utan. They called him "Ritchie".

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A female orang utan is carrying a juvenile.





The close-up shot of a crocodile's right eye.







A tributary of Sungai Sarawak Kiri

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A tributary of Sungai Sarawak Kiri.





A tributary of Sungai Sarawak Kiri





Giam waterfall.

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Long boats.






An unidentify species of butterfly. (Family name should be Nymphalidae)





A Bidayuh longhouse. Bidayuh is also known as land Dayak. Dayak people is one of the native people in Borneo.

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The corridor.




Inside the beruk (a house for ceremony). In the past, Bidayuh used this house for performing some old traditional ceremony.





A bamboo ladder in the center of beruk.





The real human skulls hanging inside the dark house. In the ancient time, some native people in Borneo were head hunters. Borneo was used to call "The land of head hunter". Today, people do not practice this head hunting culture anymore.





Close-up picture of real human skulls. In the past, people only hunted the head of their enemy.

[Simon]

Chersonesia rahria rahria

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Chersonesia rahria rahria

wah! Thankyou for the id!!!

[Simon]

feel free to post your unIDed butterfly photos here

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This should be a new thread, but I am using the "orang utan" thread created yesterday.

Today,I wanted to explore a subterranean river at a limestone hill formation but found ot the entrance point & exit point are less than 100 m. (estimate)

more on this link:

http://www.ibanorum.netfirms.com/tebakang.htm





Limestone formation.






Limestone formation.







Entrance of dark river.

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river at the foothill of a limestone hill.





Kuching barb. (Puntius kuchingensis)





Gastromyzon sp. (less than 1.5cm, juvenile)






Gastromyzon sp. , probably Gastromyzon farragus. (less than 2cm, juvenile)

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Shrimp. (Macrobrachium sp.)






Torrent prawn. (Atyopsis sp.)





Flowers of Begonia sp.

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Pitcher plant. Nepenthes mirabilis.






2 species of pitcher plants - pitcher of Nepenthes ampullaria (left) and pitchers of Nepenthes x kuchingensis (center & right).






Snail (most probably Pterocyclos latilabrum) and fungi.







Blue pansy butterfly. (Precis orithya)