Tom Grundy's Asian Critters Travels Page
We saw a number of interesting critters in Asia, including rather large spiders, lizards, sea life, monkeys, birds, odd glowing bugs and a few snakes. I wasn't always able to get good, or even any photos, but here are a few of the ones I did.
This page is not at all finished. In fact I am just getting started.
There were two types of monkeys we saw regularly, the long-tailed macaque monkeys were more numerous and more likely to come down close to where we were. There were also dusky langurs, also known as Phayre's leaf monkey I think. They are mostly black with white around their eyes and mouth. Although I didn't see any this trip we also heard gibbons calling from time to time, mostly in the morning or evening. They usually sounded pretty sad.
the dominant male macaque watches the troop
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young monkey
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young monkey
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Monkey (at Wat Tham Seua)
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monkeys jumping into the water from the tree
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monkeys grooming
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dusky langur
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Monkey at Batu Caves
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lizard
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a gecko patrols our bungalow for bugs
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a monitor lizard on a palm tree
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a tiny toad
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hornbill bird (lousy picture, but it is identifiable)
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Ostrich head (ok, it was in a zoo)
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crab harvesting algae at low tide
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flock of fruit bats heading inland in the evening
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zoom in on fruit bats
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golden orb weaver spider
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they were really big (fingers for scale)
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Sand bubbler crabs (Dotilla fenestrate) would dig small balls of sand out of their holes and pile it up on the surface, they also scraped through the surface sand looking for edibles and piled the refuse up in little balls.(the sand balls from the burrows seemed to be larger than the foraging ones) Some created rather geometric designs and others just seemed to put them wherever they could. A certain zone of the beach was really covered with these sand balls each low tide.
a sand bubbler crab brings another sand ball out of its hole
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sand bubbler crabs and their sand balls cover the beach
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we even sighted the North American Molestache
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There are more pictures of fish and other sea life on this page:
swimming and underwater photos from Thailand
Plants
Thats right, not just critters, but plants too.
ficus tree root buttresses
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I really liked the root buttresses
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panorama from an overlook (this one with the polarizer)
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panorama from an overlook (this one without the polarizer)
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