subject: Wildlife Around Mount Kinabalu [print this page] For all nature lovers out there, and the region at the foot of Mount Kinabalu, including the famous Kinabalu Park, is certainly a plant paradise waiting to be discovered and expertise to your heart's content. And you will find a variety of species of plants, flowers, animals, and some natives of the region and which are not found anywhere else, under the watchful eye of Mount Kinabalu.
The best starting point to find flora and fauna is the Kinabalu Park. 754 square kilometers area of the gardens surrounding Mount Kinabalu is home to different types of plants and animals. Will certainly be spoiled for choice with hundreds of varieties of birds, animals and plants waiting to be discovered.
With captivating sites, you can discover the different types of moths and butterflies in the Butterfly Farm, located in the Kinabalu Park area. It is home to over 600 species of butterflies and 350 species of butterflies. The Butterfly Farm is the first of its kind in Borneo. You can also see the emergence of the caterpillar and also a flower garden of good care here. Imagine being surrounded by lots of colorful butterflies and moths flying around. Will certainly be helpful to take pictures of!
Canopy Walkway up to 175 meters long gives you a unique perspective to live the life of the jungle around the area of Mount Kinabalu. You can have a closer look at the birds and animals and reptiles and insects that live in the canopy. When you look at the treetops, you can see several types of orchids ephyte between them. Among the wild animals that may have an overview of the unique shape of three beetles and horned rhinoceros, one of thousands of species of beetles that live in the canopy, and giant forest ants is the largest species of ants in the world. It is worth mentioning another insect in megastick Shan, and extends to 22 inches long making it the largest stick insect in the world. Can also be found here. You can spend hours and hours just wandering around the Canopy Walkway.
If you still want to eat more fruit orchards, you can make a visit to the Orchid Conservation Centre think tank, which also includes other plants such as palms, ginger and begonias. Eat 10 acres of park space Kinabalu, it contains the largest collection of orchids, 500 species or more, which is in the morning. You can find types tend to be rare and endangered orchids here carefully, and the slipper orchid Rothschild.
Trail to Mount Kinabalu itself is home to many species of plants and animals. On the cliff, you will discover over 800 unique species of orchids. With wide range of soils and climatic conditions and different, rocks, and this helps create a wide variety of plants.
Selection of animals that inhabit Mount Kinabalu is no less exciting. You can get a chance to see the black shrew, ferret badger and Borneo, and even birds of Borneo hunter spider flies. If you are interested in animals frightening and disgusting, and we will be happy to know that we find on the fall Kinabalu giant red worms in this area at high altitude.
With so many wild animals around Mount Kinabalu and within the mountain itself, we must see the point of going to. After all, you do not want to miss the viewer if you're on the path to the summit of Mount Kinabalu or simply explore the vast field of Kinabalu Park, at the foot of the mountain. The climbers and mountaineers alike in for a treat really well in this amazing plant paradise.
