Day 3 : 16 January
Walk trail to inum
Panas.
0800h. Siamang heard
from Camp Durian
0830h. Evidence
of manao and kayu pacat collecting found.
0900h. Footprints
of sambar / bearded pig seen along trail. First GPS made along Pematang
Jerat. From this point evidence of trapping found. Drift fence had been
erected and the remains of twenty-five foot snares discovered.These
were about one to two months old and set for small deer. First banded
leaf monkeys Presbytis melalophus seen along P.Jerat.Group of
six. Vitacimin packet found at one trap site. (Distinctive rubbish ).
1015h. Investigate
sambar wallow for footprints.Find prints of porcupine Hystrix brachyura.
1035h. First evidence of elephant-dung, perhaps there or four months
old.
1045h. See female
sambar along pematang trail.
1100h. Find first
elephant, Elephas maximus footprints at Bukit Tengkorak.Appears
to be four animals including one calf. Follow these tracks as far as
the Inum Panas (GPS above
1130h. Forty plus
hornbill mostly Aceros undulates(wreathed hornbill ) in a fruiting
fig tree. Banded leaf monkeys heard.
1200h. Arrive at
Inum Panas and discover that elephant had slept the night there,but
moved only early this morning. See a family of bearded pig at the wallow-one
adult and four young.
1200-1300h. GPS
coordinates made from Inum Panas.
1300h. Leave Inum
Panas.
1420h. Heavy rain
until Camp Durian.
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