Direktlänk till inlägg 5 februari 2011
BID no. 38 - See These Animals in the Wild...
e) Elephant
l) Monkey
- check!
During my visit to Thailand in January (2011) I also visited the National Park of Khao Sok, which is one of several national parks in Thailand.(http://www.khaosok.com/)
The following text is extracted from the link above, in order to give you a hint of the national park and the extent of it:
The National Park consists of:
• 40 % foothill rainforest • 27 % rainforest plains • 15 % limestone crag vegetation • 15 % lowland scrub • 3 % rainforest at 600-1000 m |
The rainforest in this region is some of the oldest in the world, since over the last 160 million years Thailand has remained in a similar equatorial position. The climate in the area has been relatively unaffected by ice ages, since the landmass is relatively small and has seas on both sides. Even whilst other places on the planet were suffering droughts, the Khao Sok region still received enough rainfall to sustain the forests.
Species diversity is high in Khao Sok, since during the last ice age sea levels fell to such an extent that there was a land bridge between Malaysia, Borneo and some of the Indonesian islands. This opened up new migration routes to land based organisms.
The rainforest in Khao Sok has features of both tropical evergreen forest and tropical rainforest. There are approximately 200 different floral species per squarekilometer.
Khao Sok is also famous for its limestone or ‘karst ‘mountains. In most of the region, ground level is about 200m above sea level, with the average mountain heights around 400m. The tallest peak in the National Park is 960m in height.
Wildlife (recorded species)
• Mammals: 48 species • Birds: 311 species • Bats: 38 species • Reptiles: Unknown • Insects: Unknown |
During my visit to Khao Sok I managed to see at least
- 1 wild elephant (not including the captured elephants we rode)
- 1 gibbon ass :) (Thank you Jessica for letting me know this one counted!)
- 2 gigantic spiders of the same uknown kind (at least the size of my hand).
- 1 female tree frog
- 1 small kind of lizzard
- a bunch of different beautiful butterflies in wonderful colours.
Do you think I got the animals on camera...?
Only the tree frog and one blue butterfly to show for you...
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Recipies of all kind
Watching:
My lawn growing
Working on:
the Kamasutra Challenge
Challenges Completed:
11 (2013:1)
no 47. Milk a Cow
no 71. Have Adventurous Sex
no 75. Get a Tattoo and/or a Piercing
no 78. Drink a Vintage Wine
no 89. Throw Away Those Instant Noodles- completed!
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