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BID no. 38

Av Jessica - 5 februari 2011 11:18

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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6 februari 2011 19:10

I think you can count the whole Gibbon, even if you only saw the ass! And I never get good photos of animals-I have to to tell people "That speck in the tree is a monkey-I swear!"

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Jessica

7 februari 2011 10:18

I love to take photos of animals, but wild animals doesn't seem to be my thing... :) So I guess I can check that box then? Wasn't sure it counted :D. Thanks!

 
Elle

Elle

29 maj 2011 16:38

How cool is it that you got to see an elephant in the wild? I bet that was a really neat experience. Until I make it to Asia or Africa, I'll have to stick with seeing these awesome creatures in the zoo.

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Jessica

30 maj 2011 07:25

Yeah, that was quite something extra that I hadn't expected from my visit to Thailand. They are such a harmonic kind of animal. I wish for you to see them in the wild! It is totally a different thing than in the zoo! Have a wonderful day, and thanks for dropping a note!

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