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All Creatures Great and Small # 25

Melanitis lida All Creatures Great and Small # 25 Fossil leaf The first fossil leaf study of Sarawak’s rainforest indicates the dominant tree form was the dipterocarps ( the trees that are there now) dated back 4 million years. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12949 New Species A new species has joined the Drop Tongue

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May 15, 2022 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 24

All Creatures Great and Small # 24 Peat Peat exsists along the coastal areas of both Borneo and Sumatra. Peat is formed when conditions do not allow further plant material decay. During dry conditions, peat easily catches fire, and the fire causes further global warming. This paper studies how sea-level

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April 26, 2022 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 23

Barclaya All Creatures Great and Small # 23 Gas and Oil A report from Petronas, the oil company for Malaysia, indicates that production of 5.0 thousands of gallons of oil per day is possible from the Brownfield  Sarawak area. https://doi.org/10.2523/IPTC-22448-EA White Shrimp A disease affecting white shrimp being grown in

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March 28, 2022 No Comments

All Creature Great and Small # 22

Flycatcher Plumage Resolved The plumage of the female and sub-adult Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Green-backed Flycatcher (F. elisae) and Ryukyu Flycatcher (F. owstoni) has been resolved. Three species winter in Borneo while there is no information about the Ryukyu Flycatcher. BirdingASIA 36 (2021): 22–34 Leptospirosis This disease is on the increase in Sarawak. The current

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February 26, 2022 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small #21

New Book Ian Douglas Water and the Rain Forest in Malaysia Borneo Hydrological Research at the Danum Valley Research Center Switzerland: Springer Nature Ecological Studies,362 p. 2022 e-book Euros 129; hardcover Euros 159.00 The book is a collection of scientific papers dealing with water at the Danum Valley research station. Book review later.

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January 30, 2022 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 20

+ All things Bright and Beautiful #20 Borneohistory.net Arowana Three molecular markers were used to test two hypotheses on the origin of the fish. Three species were tested. The geographic origin was a better indicator than the colour. Two were located in the river drainage system of Sarawak, while the

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December 31, 2021 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small #19

All Creature Great and Small # 19 Borneo History.net To***@*ol.com Sorry for the mix up in fonts. I don’t have the time nor do I know how to fix it. Bats Bats along a wide range in elevations are the subject of this study in the Crocker Mountain range in

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December 7, 2021 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 18

Again I am having trouble with the bold and all caps thingy and I don’t have time to fix it. My apologies. All Creatures Great and Small # 18 Trace Metals A study of trace metals in sediment along four rivers in Sarawak has shown lead, zinc and copper can

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November 10, 2021 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 17

Tomistoma New Book One Crowded Moment of Glory is a recent history book about Jesselton uprising in 1943. Available from the University of Malaya Press, it is an important work about Chinese history. For a review see DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463421000692 Another New Book “Data Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia is best described as

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October 18, 2021 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small

Hi all and new people to my work. This column is about the latest information about Borneo taken from a wide variety of sources. You can find other such columns scattered through my website Borneohistory.net All Creatures Great and Small #16 Soft Ticks Soft Ticks (Acari:argasidae) are blood-sucking insects found

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September 20, 2021 No Comments
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