Neighbors
If you build houses into nature, you should be ready to accept your new neighbors. So here are some.
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“But we are a chicken country, how can you not eat chicken? What do you want to eat here?”. At least she did not ask “why did you come here”. Malaysia is a chicken country, Borneo is a chicken island. Poor lady at a small eatery in Poring Hot Springs. The Malaysian word for chicken…
Hommage to an ugly duckling
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Palm Oil: When jungle becomes pixels
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Fairy tale bugs
These are some of the magical things I saw in the Borneo jungle. One is called cotton bug. The other is the lantern bug. Guide Lan showed them to us at the Kinabatangan River. Cotton Bug eggs. I would not have noticed, but Lan new. Then Cotton Bug – potentially Flatidae – fully developed. Looks…
The secret of the Cats of Sabah’s short tails
The cats I know and have met in my life, almost always had their tail as decoration, indicator of mood, or for whatever reasons – full and in one peace. Even in ports in Sicily or Greece: They were meager, had spotty fur, or a dripping nose, but the tail was almost always “intact”. Not…
Fruit of the day: Duku
You stumple upon a night market in KK specialising in Durians, and one stand had boring-looking green fruits without label, only price displayed (20 Ringgit per kilo). „Duku“ they said. How does it taste? Shrugs. How do you eat it? The man made a peeling gesture, but did not open one. So I bought half…