Animals
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2.1KCloning & sex changes: The bizarre extinction of Malaysian leatherback turtles
If you’re older than 20 (anyone?), you might remember that the leatherback turtle has been a frequent mascot for Malaysia. You’d see...
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3.5KBota in Perak was named after a monster… who likes to catch pantsless kids.
Let’s talk about Malaysian place names today. Some of them are pretty basic: Kuala Lumpur is literally ‘mud estuary’, and the town...
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1.4KMalaysian pet taxi drivers tell us how they handle their 4-legged passengers
Imagine this – you booked a taxi but as your taxi pulled over, you saw a bunch of passengers. No, these aren’t...
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2.8KThis Malaysian takes in horses that are no longer wanted, and he… “fixes” them.
Even if you don’t spend a lot of time around horses, you’re probably familiar with what happens to race horses that get...
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2.9KWith fewer visitors since MCO, M’sian zoo animals have been getting a lot more… frisky.
Since Movement Control Order (MCO) started in what seemed like years ago, many of the businesses were and still are struggling to...
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1.9K4 of the coolest discoveries by the late Dr Lim Boo Liat, Malaysia’s pioneering zoologist
It’s not often that zoologists make news headlines in Malaysia, but the most recent headline was a sad one. Dr Lim Boo...
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4.9KThe story of Zaitun Arshad, Malaysia’s own Tiger King who stole millions of ringgit
By now, everyone has probably heard of a certain Netflix’s Tiger King, seeing as the MCO basically meant we had all the...
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19.0KThese ‘fire snails’ only live in one place around the world: a mountain range in Malaysia
Imagine, for a moment, that your very rich, very spoilt boss said that he wanted to see a real life narwhal. Yes,...
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1.9KSome Feng Shui sifus say the ‘Year of Rat’ is a year for new beginnings, but why ah?
Wait, hold on one sec. What do you mean there’s only a little more than one week until Chinese New Year? ? Honestly, can’t...
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