tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279383916069404191.post2033246272163314148..comments2023-10-28T22:10:19.131+08:00Comments on Nature lover: A HERD OF BUFFALOES & A GROUP OF WILD PIGS CROSSING THE ROADazaharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18298768053860955549noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279383916069404191.post-88410276225205216942010-01-12T10:33:44.911+08:002010-01-12T10:33:44.911+08:00Sorry for the typo error, it should read as starve...Sorry for the typo error, it should read as starved to "extinction" and not "distinction"Martin Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18194281718414566973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279383916069404191.post-26854672022796044792010-01-12T10:16:42.200+08:002010-01-12T10:16:42.200+08:00Just within less than 20 years, all these wild lif...Just within less than 20 years, all these wild life animals made their exodus to go more interior, hopefully not hunted or starved to distinction over the years. We humans encroached their homeland and trespassed their boundaries.<br /><br />My brother told me at the traffic light turning to Perwaja he used to see big wild boars feeding there openly without fear in broad daylight .<br /><br />Bukit Kuang is near to Kijal and there were the famous Kijal twins tigers described by A Locke and I read through the interesting article. The vegetation and the wild boars population there are simply too conducive to form a good habitat for tigers.<br /><br />I shall be extremely happy and excited if I ever have a chance even just to take a look at the tiger footprints in the wild if there is any!Martin Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18194281718414566973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279383916069404191.post-9753317794769128192010-01-11T12:50:31.272+08:002010-01-11T12:50:31.272+08:00Do you know in the eighties tigers roamed the pres...Do you know in the eighties tigers roamed the present day Bukit Kuang?<br /><br />I remember seeing tiger footmarks by the dozens in our newly finished vegetable rows (batas). They must be playing in our vege farm during that night!<br /><br />Even a serow (kambing gurun) made its way into our piece of land one day!<br /><br />Mousedeer, you don't have to speak any more..there were hundreds of them in the secondary bushes...azaharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18298768053860955549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279383916069404191.post-23302816364925706882010-01-08T12:22:08.739+08:002010-01-08T12:22:08.739+08:00I suppose you mean the Bakau Tinggi mangrove fores...I suppose you mean the Bakau Tinggi mangrove forest, and I went inside there to take a look and now one could hardly even see any fish there. On the other end, a few stores are selling the mud crabs!<br /><br />I only heard from my superivisor Rani saying that the Ibuk river where it is famous for the "Kunang-kunang" or fireflies, inside the river there are crocrodiles. And also another place is the river that runs across the border from Mak Lagam to Binjai.<br /><br />They had told me that they observed the footprints of tigers in Ibuk area. Bigger footprints belong to the tigers and not those of the black leopards.<br /><br />Air Putih side, used to be primary jungles and now the forests are cleared, perhaps to make way for development or palm oil estates. Further to the west would be leading to the Taman Negara, beyond that area there should still be a good habitat for tigers.Martin Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18194281718414566973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279383916069404191.post-35933189140577168372010-01-08T09:02:46.803+08:002010-01-08T09:02:46.803+08:00Oh you too loved wild animals! Many of us do.
I l...Oh you too loved wild animals! Many of us do.<br /><br />I love wild animals in their natural environment, not caged and cramped like in zoos.<br /><br />Actually I had confronted a tiger when I was cycling to school in 1966. It was crossing the road at you know the mangroce forest next to Bukit Kuang bridge.<br /><br />I also had come face to face with a crocodile when I was swimming in the river in front of Kg Tuan. Actually at the time I was pushing the left-over nipah shoot from my mother's work station on the riverbank. Till now I have this phobia of swimming in brackish river.azaharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18298768053860955549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279383916069404191.post-13290339537664773082010-01-07T08:58:22.530+08:002010-01-07T08:58:22.530+08:00When I first came to East Coast many years ago, I ...When I first came to East Coast many years ago, I remember seeing sign that reminded drivers of "Beware of elephants" and now I see no more, perhaps still in the old trunk road?<br /><br />I was always fascinated by such wild animals. My uncle and brother were here in Terengganu in the 70s, and they always tell me stories about wild boars passing by, and they had to stop the car, then the tiger was chasing right from behind! How I wish I could have such experience!Martin Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18194281718414566973noreply@blogger.com