Animals
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17.4KThese ‘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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1.3KSome 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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874Malaysia’s biggest zoos make almost 2 tonnes of animal poop a day. What do they do with it?
Here’s a fun trivia: do you know that an adult African elephant can poop out up to 136 kilograms of crap per...
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447Taman Negara may not have existed today, if it weren’t for this persistent British hunter
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776There’s been a series of elephant deaths in Sabah. And palm oil may be a cause.
Sometime at the end of September, anglers fishing at a river in Tawau spotted an elephant carcass floating in the river. Pictures...
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457A M’sian NGO claims that tourist volunteers in Sabah are bad for orangutan conservation
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you couldn’t have missed the ongoing conversation about palm oil and how it affects an orangutan’s...
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797These endangered monkeys eat RATS… and end up saving Malaysian plantations billions
In what seems like something straight out of Kung Fu Panda an Animal Planet horror documentary, scientists carrying out research in Perak...
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521You now need a permit to bring mangoes into Malaysia… because of this one bug
[This article was initially written by our abangs at Soscili. Click here to read.] Some of us travel bugs would be familiar...
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470Perhilitan just killed more than 2,000 baby turtles. And that might’ve been a good thing.
Sometime in June this year, the Perhilitan (Department of Wildlife and National Parks) seized some 2,500 baby turtles from the suitcases of...
