Back from Borneo
A small update about my recent trip to Borneo. It has been a great trip, with many new stories to tell you soon here or in magazine around the world.
Borneo is such a diverse place, with plenty of nature around and just one month there in different places was just enough to scratch the surface of it.
Nonetheless I was back with some nice stories and it’s enough for now. Here’s a small (very small) selection of shots from there, that perhaps will give you a hint about how packed of life is that place.
I’m also working on new things like articles, books and scientific exhibitions, so stay tuned!
- Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) jumping from a tree to another with her baby tightly attached to her
- Silver langur (Trachypithecus cristatus) young playing with the camera
- Silver langur (Trachypithecus cristatus)
- Emanuele Biggi taking a stupid selfie with a way less stupid Silver langur (Trachypithecus cristatus) Photo ©Francesco Tomasinelli
- Emanuele Biggi exploring Poring Hot Springs forest (©Francesco Tomasinelli)
- Emanuele Biggi exploring Kubah National Park’s forest (©Francesco Tomasinelli)
- Emanuele Biggi taking a macro shot (©Francesco Tomasinelli)
- Emanuele Biggi taking a macro shot (©Francesco Tomasinelli)
- Emanuele Biggi looking for frogs at Kubah National Park
- Emanuele Biggi taking a macro shot in Bako National Park (©Francesco Tomasinelli)
- Emanuele Biggi observing a giant beetle (Chalchosoma moellenkampii)
- Giant centipede (Thereuopoda sp.) inside Gomantong caves
- Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)
- Unidentified jumping spider (probably Thiania sp.) from Kinabatangan forest
- Borneo pygmy elephant (Elephas maximus, maybe E. m. borneensis very soon) from Kinabatangan forest
- Phallus indusiatus mushroom with black fly on it (an unidentified species, a mimic to the bees of the genus Xylocopa)
- Heterometrus sp. scorpion wandering around the entrance of its burrow at night in search of food
- Scolopendra sp. centipede waiting for a prey on a tree trunk
- A flower mantis (Creoboter sp.) from Poring Hot Springs National Park
- Ornate earless agamid Aphaniotis ornata
- One of the entrances at Deer Cave, Gunung Mulu National Park
- Bats from Deer Cave flying out at dusk in millions at Gunung Mulu National Park
- Bats from Deer Cave being attacked by bat hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus) at Gunung Mulu National Park
- Aplopeltura boa snake, a snail eating snake from Gunung Mulu National Park
- Cordyceps parasitoid fungus emerging from a already dead ant on a leaf in Gunung Mulu National Park
- Golden orb web spider (Nephila pilipes) female in the Bako National Park
- Boiga jaspidea in threat display before running away in the forest at Kubah National Park
- Forest pig (Sus barbatus) looking for food in the Bako National Park beach
- Land crab (Geosesarma malayanum) living inside a pitcher plant’s pitcher (Nepenthes ampullaria) in the Bako National Park
- Dischidia rafflesiana, a epiphytic myrmecophilous plant from Bako National Park