ABOVE: Jentink’s Squirrel Sundasciurus jentinki feeding on a ripe Medinilla berry.  Medinilla  is a local montane shrub  with bright pink berries commonly grown as an ornamental plant around Kinabalu Park HQ.

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This fruit eating individual also foraged for insects amongst mosses and lichens in the moss forest surrounding Kinabalu Park HQ.
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Note that the tail is clearly banded longitudinally NOT in rings  like many other Bornean squirrels.
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Note that the tail is clearly banded longitudinally NOT in rings  like many other Bornean squirrels.

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Kinabalu Park hosts the highest variety of squirrels in the world due to the diversity of plant life.

See Bornean Black-banded Squirrel on Kinabalu