Animal in Sabah including wildlife.

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Cats

A- Domestic Cats
B- Wild Cats

B- Wild Cats in Borneo

Other then the many variety of domestic cats you can see easily in Sabah, there are 5 Wild Cats species you can find in Sabah.

The 5 Wild cats of Sabah
1- Leopard Cat.
2- Marbled Cat.
3- Flat-headed Cat. ...
4- Borneo Bay Cat. ...
5- Sunda Clouded Leopard.

Horse

Common Porcupine

SCIENTIFIC NAME : Nystrix Brachyura
LOCAL NAME : Landak Raya

Bearded Pig / Wild Boar

SCIENTIFIC NAME : Sus Barbatus
LOCAL NAME : Babi Hutan

Oriental Small Clawed Otter

SCIENTIFIC NAME : Aonyx Cinerea
LOCAL NAME : Memerang Kecil

Sambar Deer

SCIENTIFIC NAME : Cervus Unicolor
LOCAL NAME : Rusa

Common Barking Deer

SCIENTIFIC NAME : Muntiacus Muntjac
LOCAL NAME : Kijang

Monkey

MINI ZOO in TAWAU

The zoo was shut down on 17th September 2015 by Sabah Wildlife Department after animals found in squalid conditions.

Dragonflies of Borneo

DAMSELFLIES OF BORNEO

Dragonflies and damselflies are insects belonging to the order Odonata.

The rarer ones are usually those which live deep in the forests. The species list in this website is not exhaustive of course..........

Mosquito - Borneo

Male 4mm
A male mosquito lives off plant nectar and doesn't bite, his feathery antennae are used to detect the whine of a female's wings, his long palp to smell her pheromones.
But this 5mm male mosquito does bite and the bite is sharp and follow by itchiness.

Stephanidae sp BORNEO
An Stephanidae wasp with red head, Borneo Island

Female
Body length = 27mm
Ovipositor length = 32mm
Total body length = 59mm

The intimidating female Stephanidae Wasp has a tremendously long ovipositor for egg-laying, not for stinging.

2016-10-17 Bandar Sri Indah

Emerald Cockroach Wasp
(Ampulex compressa, also known as the jewel wasp)

Scientists attempts to mimic the Emerald Wasp's surgical skills and met with limited success -
How Ampulex compressa manages to override the cockroach's nervous system is still an area of ongoing research, and a fascinating one.....

Argiope aemula

Photo Left : A pair of Oval St. Andrew's Cross Spider. Big size is the female. The small male is 1/10 of the female.
The brilliantly colored spider with silvery hair on the carapace sits head down in the centre of the web, and holds its legs in pairs in such a way that they appear to be aligned to the four arms of the letter 'X'.