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Found among rotten woods, this Trilobite Beetle is almost black in colour. Front portion of her body is wider with lobes and back portion is narrower with 'spines' like appendages. The female of Trilobite Beetle retains her larvae form even when adults. Only males turns into typical Beetle with wings.
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Uploaded Feb 26, 2018. Captured Jan 23, 2018 16:10.
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The Park itself is popular with locals especially on weekends as they can picnic and swim in the river. There is Waterfall and a Hot Spring within the Park, around 1 to 1.5 hours hike. There are proper hiking trails.
There are not many wild life photographers or tourists visiting the Park, this is what the NGO/Group hope to change.
The Park HQ area has basic accommodation - air-cond rooms & fan rooms with common bathrooms and there is a canteen serving food. For the hike to Mt. Lucia, there is a hostel with basic facilities 8.5km distance up the mountain at around 900 masl and the peak of Mt. Lucia is at around 1,200 masl. Prior arrangements are required to climb Mt. Lucia or Mt. Magdalena as it is compulsory to get Rangers/Guides to accompany you. There is water supply at the hostel but all visitors needs to bring their own food supply for the duration of their stay. Cooking facilities is available.
Tawau Hills Park have a lot to offer to wild life photographers who are willing to spend more time there. During the trip, I met Dr. Andrew Hearn, a researcher from Oxford University, using the Park as his base to study wild cats of Borneo. Some of the rare cats they have documented includes Bay Cat, Leopard Cat, Clouded Leopard, Marbled Cat among others. On one of my night walk, I chance upon a Clouded Leopard, but was not able to take pictures of it unfortunately. There are also a few other Mammals in the Park too, including Red Leaf Monkey, Gibbons, Porcupine, several species of Civet Cats, and on rare occasion, Orang Utan.
Check out this video on You Tube of Dr Andrew Hearn and his project to documents the wild cats :
The Park also offers good variety of birds for Birders including some rare birds like the Borneon Banded Pita.
Good variety of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Park too. Last year, one group found a Dragon Snake - Xenodermus javanicus.
And there are many insects life in the Park if you are into night walks, with several new species newly discovered and I am sure there are many more unknown species yet to be discovered from the Park.
Let me know if you plans to come back to visit Borneo again, Tawau Hills Park is a good place where it is not crowded and is not too expensive like Danum Valley and Malian Basin. Posted 7 years ago