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Frog Stare
Wallace's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) - Danum Valley, Malaysia
This large tree frog is found in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand and Borneo and is perhaps the best known of all the flying frogs. This iconic frog was another of my main goals to see in Borneo. It proved considerably tougher than the file-eared tree frog, the key to finding this species is finding a good breeding site. I had found a mammal wallow that I thought looked good and gone there repeatedly looking for these without any luck, right as I was starting to think I was wasting my time someone told me that the specific wallow I was visiting was infact a good place to see this species. I began visiting the site with renewed vigor and one rainy night I was able to find several of these sitting around the wallow at various heights with the highest perched maybe 5 meters up and the lowest just 2 meters or so above ground. Despite my many nocturnal wanderings and many visits to other wallows and strolls through the jungle I didn't find any other frogs in different locations. However the wallow in question kept producing fairly reliably for the rest of my time at Danum.
If you look closely you can see some of the flaps of skin that are adaptions for gliding and parachuting, these and the membranes inbetween the frogs digits allow it to "fly" which of course isn't true flight like a bird or a bat but more of a glide.
Looks like this is my 1000th photo, whoa that's alot of photos! By my count looks like there are about 400 species pictured in my photostream and photos from 11 different countries, I promise more to come in the future!
Frog Stare
Wallace's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) - Danum Valley, Malaysia
This large tree frog is found in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Southern Thailand and Borneo and is perhaps the best known of all the flying frogs. This iconic frog was another of my main goals to see in Borneo. It proved considerably tougher than the file-eared tree frog, the key to finding this species is finding a good breeding site. I had found a mammal wallow that I thought looked good and gone there repeatedly looking for these without any luck, right as I was starting to think I was wasting my time someone told me that the specific wallow I was visiting was infact a good place to see this species. I began visiting the site with renewed vigor and one rainy night I was able to find several of these sitting around the wallow at various heights with the highest perched maybe 5 meters up and the lowest just 2 meters or so above ground. Despite my many nocturnal wanderings and many visits to other wallows and strolls through the jungle I didn't find any other frogs in different locations. However the wallow in question kept producing fairly reliably for the rest of my time at Danum.
If you look closely you can see some of the flaps of skin that are adaptions for gliding and parachuting, these and the membranes inbetween the frogs digits allow it to "fly" which of course isn't true flight like a bird or a bat but more of a glide.
Looks like this is my 1000th photo, whoa that's alot of photos! By my count looks like there are about 400 species pictured in my photostream and photos from 11 different countries, I promise more to come in the future!