Friday, November 30, 2007

Creatures

On the way up Fraser's Hill, we saw these monkeys by the side of the road perhaps hoping that people would stop their cars to feed them. While taking photos of the flowers in Fraser's Hill town, I just could not exclude the ant, bee, spider and snail because they were a part of all that I saw. The cicada stayed on this wall of half a day, motionless in the same spot.One morning, I found this attractive moth on the carpet. While photogaphing some tiger lilies by the road, I noticed this butterfly stuck in the flower. It looked to me like someone probably caught this butterfly and stuffed it there. Luckily it was still alive and flew away after I gently pulled it out of its predicament.A skink basking in the sun.
During our trek into the Bishop Trail, we donated some blood to the leeches there.
I was told that if you put powder on them they would drop off. We just flicked them off with our fingers. It's an aweful experience to be bitten by leeches. The blood does not clot and continue to flow for some time after you have gotten rid the leeches and the wound takes a number of days to heal. Three well-fed leeches:
This leech escaped detection and its presence was felt at the end of the trail. It was good that it had not taken too much blood before its discovery.
We saw this giant millipede crossing the road and concerned that it might be run over by a car, we let it crawl onto our umbrella and transported it to safety.



Walking down the road from the Methodist Bungalow to our car, we saw these monkeys high above ground. They had long tails and very long fingers. Though they were not threatening, I was glad that the car was within sprinting distance.


It's getting dark, time to go home.On the drive down from Fraser's Hill, we saw a couple of these colourful jungle fowl. I've seen jungle fowls twice before - once on Pulau Ubin and once in Sungei Buloh Wetlands in Singapore. A long time ago.



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