Hello hello, long time no posting here.How are you? fine? Today we're gonna talk about wildlife in Kalimantan, western say it Borneo. As you know before, that Kalimantan is 3rd largest island in the world after Greenland and New Guinea. It lies on equator line,and of course it has tropical forest like other place that lies on it.
Kalimantan is wonderful place that still exist until now, It's rich island that has so many valuable wood and other natural resource.Teak tree thrives here,and so the other tree.This island was still covered by high dense forests in early 20th century.But now deforestation haunts this island, nevertheless this still has beautiful endemic plant such as 'Black Orchid' or 'Anggrek Hitam' and 'Mangga Kasturi' or 'Kasturi Mango', have you heard about them?. I don't know what to say more about plants, that'ts all what i've got, let's talk about animal.
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| Anggrek Hitam |
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| Mangga Kasturi |
The animal is no less beautiful, we know orang utan,bekantan, and the most expensive arowana, Super Red Arowana.Orang utan lives in tropical forest solitary , they usually live on tree but sometimes they come down to the ground for food.Although orang utan is omnivore, but 90% of their food are fruits,nectar,and leaves.
Now let orang utan enjoy their food in their tropical forest,and let us go to mangrove forest. There is unique monkey lives here,only in kalimantan. Yes, their name is Bekantan. Bekantan is kind of monkey that has long nose in theirselves.This is the difference between Bekantan and other monkeys, very unique isn't it?
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| Orang Utan |
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| Super Red Arowana |
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| Bekantan |
Male Bekantan can grow over 75cm and its female can grow over 60cm.They live in group with number between ten to twenty monkeys.Those monkeys most spend their life on tree,sometimes they come into water, swim the river for going to another tree or jumping from tree.Even they're able to cross between island.Bekantan lives in group,but we hardly found them because they're shy animal.
Hey, when Bekantan swam in the river he saw big red arowana.That's great, we found most expensive Arowana. Yes they live here, this fish is very popular for fish keeper.
They have red beautiful colour in its scales with long beautiful body. "Super Red Arowana" or native calls it Siluk Merah is one of arowana breed. They live deep in Kalimantan jungle forest river. Same like any other arowana, these fishes are predator.They eat smaller fish ,insect, even smaller mammals.Long time ago before native knew how valuable it is they're eaten. After they know how expensive it is, they're hunted and then sold for high price.
Well that's all little information about Kalimantan wildlife, I'm sorry about my bad writing
