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Photos
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Monkey - "Saru" |
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Believe
or not, those black points on sea surface are head of monkeys.
When we were taking a walk along the beach at 8:30 am in the morning
we saw a family of monkeys jump out from the bushes and start
swimming into the sea. According to the hotel's naturalist, they
swim, for fun and not for hunting purpose. |
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2.
Squirrel - "Risu"
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| Though it
was rather rare experience to meet a wild boar or a great hornbill,
you can see squirrels all over the place. |
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3.
Tokay Gecko - "Yamori"
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You can
see many geckos at night outside the hotel buildings, but most
of them are small ones. This one was as large as 30 cm in length.
We found out that large one is called "Tokay Gecko" (the world
largest and noisiest). |
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Sea Cucumber - "Namako"
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| This picture
was taken in September 1998, when we first visited the Andaman.
In Japan we eat sea cucumber but we have never seen one alive.
We were so impressed that we tried to find one each time we returned,
but were unable to.
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Monitor Lizard - "O-tokage" |
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You can
see this monitor lizard in the daytime on the lawn near the poolside
trying to catch worms with his long tongue. According to the hotel
staff, his mother was very popular among visitors because she
was friendly and came to the poolside restaurant to beg for food.
She even sunbathed on the poolside along with hotel visitors.
This story has become the legend at hotel. |
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6.
Hermit Crab - "Yadokari"
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| We saw hermit
crab twice on the way back from our dinner. Seems like they are
active at night. |
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7.
Ghost Crab - "Kani"
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There are
so many kinds of crabs and this is only of them. It is called
'Ghost' crab because it moves too fast to be seen. |
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8.
Great Hornbill - "Sai-cho"
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| This is
the one I had seen in the picture book when I was a little kid.
Then, I saw the real one, finally!!. It was around 8:30 am. I
saw three of them plucking fruit. They flew away when they saw
me. According to the hotel staff, I was very lucky to see the
great hornbills. I think that was because I was taking a walk
alone (which means no conversation). Takao missed hornbills because
he was still in the bed. |
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9.
Wild Boar - "Inoshishi"
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While Takao
and I were walking along a small trail, we bumped into a family
of wild boar crossing the trail 10 meter ahead. The mother boar
let her babies go first and then she noticed our existence.
She stared at us in a threatening way. We held our breath and
stood still to let her know that we did not mean to hurt her
children. Three minutes later she left. Although the experience
was scary at the time it was also thrilling to be so close to
a family of boar. You can see why we did not reach for our camera
ti take a picture.
We
have got a comment from the resident naturalist that the boar
in the picture is not the same kind we met across. The one in
the picture is 'Sus Burbatus'
but the one we met should have been 'Sus Scrota'.
Thanks to Dave!
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Ant-hill (Termite) - "Ari-zuka (Shiro-Ari)"
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| This anthill
was found when we were doing "jungle trek". |
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Lizard - "Tokage"
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We met this
lovely tiny lizard at the hotel corridor near our room when we
came back from the outing to a local orchard arranged by the hotel.
The red local fruit is called "Rambutan", freshly plucked by us.
Local people like rambutan very much and some eat 100 per a day.
It tasted like a lichee. |
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Human being - "Hito"
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