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Borneo has own a wide variety of bird species. The geological history of Borneo is a major factor: long isolation of the island, broken during the last Ice age, when Borneo was connected to the continent of Asia, led to a combination of Asian and native species. There are about 420 species of birds and 37 are endemic to Borneo [4] [5]
Rafflesia, largest flower in the world is endemic to Borneo. Borneo island, made up of three countries which are Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), Brunei (Sultanate) and Indonesia (Kalimantan), is the third largest island in the world. Borneo island is a region that is rich in biodiversity. It consists of 15,000 plant species, and more than 1,400 ...
The wildlife trade has had a detrimental effect on Indonesia's fauna, including rhinoceroses, orangutans, tigers, elephants, and certain species of amphibians. [30] Up to 95% of animals sold in markets are taken directly from the wild, rather than from captive breeding stock; and more than 20% of the animals died in transportation. [31]
It is sexually dimorphic, with females ranging in body length from 1 to 1.2 m (3 ft 3 in to 3 ft 11 in) and males from 1.2 to 1.7 m (3 ft 11 in to 5 ft 7 in). The Bornean orangutan inhabits Borneo lowland rain forests and Borneo montane rain forests up to an elevation of 1,500 m (4,900 ft).
677 species of birds have been recorded just on the peninsula, with 794 recorded for the whole of Malaysia. [7] A few are endemic to the mountains of the peninsula, such as the Malayan whistling-thrush. [7] Bornean forests show high levels of endemism among bird species, [2] with 38 species found nowhere else. [5]
Endemic fauna of Borneo — a large international island of Southeast Asia; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. Endemic ...
The Sunda Shelf mangroves ecoregion, in the mangrove biome, are on the coasts of the islands of Borneo and eastern Sumatra in Malaysia and Indonesia. They are home to the proboscis monkey . As well as being an important habitat for terrestrial and marine wildlife, mangroves preserve the shape of the coastline.
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