Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Malaysia - part 3 - some random animals of Tioman Island

This is not meant to be a fair survey. Those are just random shots of animals I saw.

 These big monitor lizards were amazingly common.

Fish in the clear water
 Just off the side of a small boat: clear blue water and colourful fish

Also flying foxes
 This one saw me take its picture

 ..and walking across the island (you saw in the previous post how mountainous it is) I always saw those giant black squirrels which are meant to be very rare. Just from their behaviour you could tell that they were not monkeys though in all other respect from far they appeared to be monkeys. They were large enough to be monkeys for sure. Wikipedia says that "Head and body length varies from 35 to 58 centimetres (14 to 23 in) in length, and the tail is up to 60 centimetres (24 in) long, with an overall length of up to 118 centimetres (46 in)."

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