Results tagged “thailand” on Earth Touch Blog
Macaques at both ends of the tail scale Jun 2 2008
Tags: asia, diet, feed, long-tailed, macaque, mammal, monkey, stump-tailed, tail, thailand, vertebrate
Hornbills feed in banyan tree May 12 2008
On a cool, breezy morning in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, the Earth-Touch crew visited a banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) to watch birds and other wildlife feeding on the fruit.
Tags: banyan, bird, eagle, fig, forest, gibbon, hornbill, khao yai, mammal, monitor, pigeon, reptile, snake, thailand, treeThe Earth-Touch baby album Apr 30 2008
Over the months, Earth-Touch has been privileged to witness the early days, survival struggles and playful moments of many young animals. Here is a selection of these video clips.
Tags: africa, baboon, baby, bath, bird, botswana, burrow, calf, cape, chick, coast, colony, cub, delta, den, dog, egg, elephant, endangered, fish, fly, foal, giraffe, herd, hluhluwe, imfolozi, juvenile, karoo, kite, kwazulu-natal, lion, mammal, meerkat, monkey, moremi, mud, okavango, piglet, reef, sodwana, south africa, thailand, tree, trunk, video, warthog, water, western cape, whale, young, zebraWildlife news from around the world
Bat fossil settles it: first flight, then steering Mar 24 2008
The journal Nature reports that a new bat fossil seems to have settled a debate about what came first in bat evolution: flight or echolocation.
Tags: asia, bat, echolocation, flight, fly, fossil, mammal, thailand, wrinkle-lipped bat, wyomingBats emerge at dusk Mar 20 2008
With a sound like rushing water, overlaid by squeaking, thousands of bats pour out of a cave and into the evening sky. In flight, they look like a whiplash across the sunset.
Tags: bat, bird, cave, fly, hunt, khao yai, mammal, thailandThe week’s most viewed stories Mar 14 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 07 March to Thursday 13 March 2008) were:
Tags: aliwal shoal, asia, bird, fish, food, forest, forest fever-berry, hornbill, mate, moss, nest, popular, shark, south africa, thailand, tiger shark, tree, trunkFears and smears in a bat cave Mar 14 2008
For someone who is afraid of heights, small spaces and the dark, one of the main concerns while filming in caves is avoiding an untimely and regrettable death.
Confessions of a food slut Feb 27 2008
Here follows another yet another “issue” that I have developed since my association with Earth-Touch began. I have to admit and confess that I am a “food slut”.
Tags: botswana, ecuador, food, namibia, thailandDid you know? Gibbons Feb 20 2008
Unlike most apes, gibbons form monogamous, usually life-long partnerships. About 3% of mammal species, which number more than 4 000, are monogamous.
Tags: ape, breed, gestation, gibbon, khao yai, mammal, mate, thailandTerrapins take their time Feb 18 2008
In its expeditions around the globe, Earth-Touch has filmed some fast-changing scenes and speedy creatures – but terrapins are not among them.
Tags: blyde canyon, forest, khao yai national park, reptile, south africa, terrapin, thailandToads, frogs and tadpoles Feb 4 2008
Toads and frogs are both tailless amphibians and begin life in water as tadpoles.
Tags: amphibian, anatomy, asia, blyde canyon, egg, fertilise, frog, khao yai, metamorphosis, mpumalanga, national park, south africa, tadpole, thailand, toadThis week’s most viewed stories Feb 1 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 25 January to Thursday 31 January 2008) were:
Tags: barking, creature, deer, female, food, fresh, habitat, khao yai national park, pregnant, prey, pride, reef, ribbon, risky, search, shoots, small, south africa, thailandDid you know? Roaches are not that bad Nov 30 2007
Everyone loves to hate cockroaches they are usually considered filthy and are known to cause asthma in children.
But these insects contribute to the earth’s biodiversity; and as omnivores they clean the environment and help in recycling organic litter that would otherwise accumulate.
Tags: amphibian, asia, asthma, bird, cockroach, environmentally friendly, invertebrate, lizard, pest, thailand, thung salaeng luang national parkDid you know? Pit vipers Nov 29 2007
Pit vipers, as their name suggests, have a heat-sensitive pit on either side of their head. These pits are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, being covered with a temperature sensitive membrane.
These organs can help the pit viper sense the presence of warm-blooded animals, which is ultimately useful at night when these reptiles most often hunt for small animals such as frogs and lizards. They often form ‘S’-shapes with their body, enabling them to strike at any time.
Tags: asia, frog, hunt, lizard, membrane, pit viper, reptile, snake, thailand, thung salaeng luang national park, viper, warm-bloodedDid You Know? Tokay geckos Nov 27 2007
The best way to track down the nocturnal tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) is to listen out for its loud, distinctive “to-kay” call after sunset.
Native to parts of Asia and the Indo-Australian Archipelago, this species also makes a variety of other calls which sound like “gah”, “eck” and, sometimes, a small dog’s bark.
Tags: asia, colour, gecko, lizard, noise, reptile, thailand, throat, thung salaeng luang national park, tokay gecko, tongueDid You Know? How bats hunt at night Nov 26 2007
Wrinkle-lipped bats (Chaerephon plicata) are found in caves from sea level to about 200m (656ft) and require forested habitats. These bats have been listed as low risk on the IUCN Red List of threatened species in 2007.
The week’s most viewed stories Nov 23 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 16 November to Thursday 22 November 2007) were:
The presence of frogs in the damp grass suggested that there might be snakes in the vicinity, and sure enough a young pit viper was soon spotted.
The week’s most viewed stories Nov 16 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 09 November to Thursday 15 November 2007) were:
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Predators and prey share bat caveIt’s the circle of life: cockroaches feed on bat guano, spiders feed on cockroaches and snakes feed on bats.
The week’s most viewed stories Nov 9 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 02 November to Thursday 08 November 2007) were:
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While adult monkeys groom and scratch, their babies cavort and play in the branches around them.
Earth-Touch serves first footage from Asia Nov 5 2007
Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) have the widest distribution of any primate after humans, and are found across Asia, in India, Afghanistan, Thailand, China, Pakistan, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
These highly intelligent Asian monkeys are found in many different climates and habitats and feed on seeds, fruits, herbs, roots and insects. In the wild, they live in troops of 12 to 20 animals usually consisting of females and babies, as the males leave the troop when they reach adulthood.
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