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Mount Kinabalu (Dusun: Gayo Ngaran or Nulu Nabalu, Malay: Gunung Kinabalu) is the highest mountain in Borneo and Malaysia. With an elevation of 4,095 metres (13,435 ft), it is the third-highest peak of an island on Earth, the 28th highest peak in Southeast Asia , and 20th most prominent mountain in the world.
Kinabalu Park (Malay: Taman Kinabalu), established as one of the first national parks of Malaysia in 1964, is Malaysia's first World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO in December 2000 for its "outstanding universal values" and the role as one of the most important biological sites in the world with more than 4,500 species of flora and fauna, including 326 bird and around 100 mammal species ...
In winter, the optimal temperature range is between 26 and 27 °C and 15-17 °C at night. Significant temperature differences are beneficial to Paphiopedilum rothschildianum; the region of Mount Kinabalu to which it is endemic has noticeable temperature drops and fluctuations which has caused the orchid to become adapted to this habitat type. [4]
Anomochilus monticola, the Kinabalu giant blind snake, [3] mountain pipe snake, [4] or Mount Kinabalu dwarf pipesnake, [5] is a species of snake in the dwarf pipesnake family Anomochilidae. It is endemic to Kinabalu Park in northern Borneo , where it inhabits montane and submontane rainforest at altitudes of 1,450–1,513 m (4,757–4,964 ft).
The species name kinabaluensis refers to Mount Kinabalu, the type locality. Description ... Habitat. It grows in shaded rainforests, with moist, well-drained soil, at ...
Mount Kinabalu is the tallest of the island's mountains, [1] and the best place to see its montane endemics. [16] Birdlife International defines Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs) as places where the breeding ranges of two or more range-restricted species—those with breeding ranges of less than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi)—overlap.
Chisocheton cumingianus subsp. kinabaluensis is endemic to Borneo, where it is known only from Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. Its habitat is rain forests. [2] References
The Kinabalu shrew (Crocidura baluensis) is a species in the family Soricidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is endemic to the mountain Mount Kinabalu on Borneo , and its sister peak, Mount Tambuyukon . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]