CCNR on an Early Evening (2 Sep 2011)

Decided to check out the fringes of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve (CCNR) with Kok Sheng in the early evening. There was a huge bunch of photographers ahead of us, and we had thought that the noise they made would have driven all the animals away. Surprisingly though, we still spotted quite a number of stuff!


Possibly less than 50m away from where I started, I spotted a Lesser Mouse Deer (Tragulus kanchil) resting among the undergrowth - and to think that the noisy bunch of photographers was less than 50m away from me!


It stood up after a while...


And started licking some of the nearby leaves. Not sure what it was trying to, since it did not munch on any of the leaves, but just licked.


We saw a total of 4 Lesser Mouse Deers - two of them were together!


And right above our heads when I spotted the first mouse deer, there was a Horsfield's Flying Squirrel (Iomys horsfieldi)!


Later, 2 more appeared! Here's another one!


They were just chasing each other on the tree (there were two of them above) - not sure if it's some kind of courtship behaviour?


There were the usual Malayan Colugos (Cynocephalus variegatus), which we saw 4 of them.

It's amazing that despite our forest being so fragmented, there're still many interesting wild life living in them.

Unfortunately, I have encountered several poachers in our forest as well - for their own selfish reasons, they trap and remove these wonderful wildlife from our forest, and it's no wonder that many of our native mammals are now rare and endangered. If you see any poachers in our forest, do contact the National Parks Board, so that they can take the necessary actions against them!