MAMMALS OF BORNEO

Jentink’s Squirrel, Kinabalu Park HQ

uluulublog

7 years ago

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.

This fruit eating individual also foraged for insects amongst mosses and lichens in the moss forest surrounding Kinabalu Park HQ.

Note that the tail is clearly banded longitudinally NOT in rings like many other Bornean squirrels.

Note that the tail is clearly banded longitudinally NOT in rings like many other Bornean squirrels.

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

Exit mobile version