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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

Mouse Deer

Since I arrived here 12 years ago, I have heard of the stories about the Mouse Deer. I wanted to find examples, but the stories in English were all prohibitively expensive. Finally, a few months ago, a volume appeared in Ireland and was termed a “reading copy.” I jumped on

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October 3, 2021 No Comments

Proboscis Monkey

The Proboscis Monkey I have often been teased because of my big nose. I never knew there was anything wrong with my nose until high school when other boys would mention it unmercifully. I often thought about getting a nose job. This kept up until one of my teachers told

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September 25, 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

All Creatures Great and Small #15

All Creatures Great and Small # 15 Tom’s Note: The changes in font and colour mean nothing. I still can’t figure out how to change them. The Kimaragang People of Sabah The essay describes the Kimaragang about where they came from, where they live, their language, economy and relations with

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August 15, 2021 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small # 14

Recent Research on Borneo The bold text on some of the entries means nothing. I just could not figure out how to get rid of it. New Genetic Information Our results point to a surprisingly active population in Wallacea, marked by two periods of extensive change concentrated around the Last

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July 17, 2021 No Comments

All Creatures Great and Small

Current Research about Borneo #14 Malaysia Anti Malaria Certification Endangered The continued preponderance of the P. knowlesi mosquito in Sabah may threaten Malaysia’s quest to become a malaria-free state. The vector seems to be prevalent in areas disturbed for agriculture and land clearing operations. Scientific Reports article# 11810 (2021) In a related

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June 26, 2021 No Comments

Melanau Beliefs and Crocodile Stories

Tom’s Note: This article was hard to read and decipher as well as being long. I read it over three times coming back to sections several times. Please remember these are old beliefs and do not reflect the Melanau of today. The earth is an egg riding on the horns

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June 23, 2021 No Comments

Tarsier and Evolution

Early Sketch from Camel’s description Tom’s Note: The people of the Indo/Malay islands already knew about the Tarsier. However, when the white men came, they made the animal known to the western world of science.  The story of the Tarsier began in 1705 when a person named J. Camel described

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June 12, 2021 No Comments
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