Kinabalu horned frog, Pelobatrachus baluensis (Boulenger, 1899) former Xenophrys baluensis of Sabah / Borneo Pelobatrachus baluensis is a montane frog in the family Megophryidae that is endemic to northern Borneo in Sabah, Malaysia, with a confirmed range on Mount Kinabalu…
Borneo skink or striped tree skink, Dasia vittata (Edeling, 1865) – of Borneo Dasia vittata is an arboreal oviparous skink endemic to the island of Borneo, occurring in Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It is most often seen on trunks and…
Arachnothelphusa cf. merarapensis from central Sarawak / Borneo – around 1600m ASL We already knew from the crab genus Arachnothelphusa that they must have a direct development. This in-situ photo now clearly shows for the first time that this is…
Hard-shelled katydid Dysmorpha obesa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 of central Sabah / Borneo – 200m ASL
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…
Kobayashi’s horned frog, Pelobatrachus kobayashii Malkmus and Matsui, 1997 from Sabah / Borneo. A few years ago, I had the chance to photograph the rare Pelobatrachus kobayashii. Nevertheless, I wanted to find and photograph this very impressive and very large…
Stork-billed kingfisher – Pelargopsis capensis (Linnaeus, 1766) – P. c. innominata (van Oort, 1910) – of Borneo (200m ASL) Pelargopsis capensis is a large tree kingfisher of the family Alcedinidae that is widely but patchily distributed from the Indian subcontinent…
A visit to the Kundasang Market in Sabah at Mount Kinabalu. Kundasang Market is the everyday fresh-produce market of Kundasang, a highland town in Ranau District, Sabah, a few kilometres from Kinabalu National Park. Stalls line the main road through…
Borneo elephant or the Borneo pygmy elephant, Elephas maximus borneensis Deraniyagala, 1950 Sabah/Borneo. Elephas maximus borneensis is the Bornean elephant, a subspecies of the Asian elephant restricted to north eastern Borneo, with most herds in Sabah and a small population in…
Grey-headed fish eagle, Icthyophaga ichthyaetus (Horsfield, 1821) of Borneo. Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus is a piscivorous raptor of lowland tropical Asia, ranging from the Indian subcontinent through mainland Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula the Greater Sundas the Philippines and Sulawesi. It…