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- October 2008 - Snakes and snake food -- a bronzeback swallowing a lizard, and poor little innocent chicks!
- October 2008 - Diameter at breast height (dbh) of some dipterocarps at Rimbun Dahan.
- September 2008 - Shorea sumatrana, a critically endangered species of forest tree, is flowering for the first time at Rimbun Dahan. Its blooms will be immortalised by resident botanical artist Lauren Black.
- June 2008 - The beautiful but shy blue-winged pittas have returned to Rimbun Dahan to breed, much further south than previously recorded. Their nest has been discovered in an abandoned woodpile and their calls can be heard all over the garden.
- May 2008 -
Like a bull in a chinashop, a reticulated python laid waste to the Rimbun Dahan chicken coop. Two hens were killed and one eaten, then hastily regurgitated as the python attempted to escape.
- April 2008 - How much a garden can grow in seventeen years! From a few saplings and not much shade to riotous greenery -- check out the before and after images.
- December 2007 - Four new bird species have been spotted at Rimbun Dahan recently -- the Rufous Woodpecker, Purple Heron, Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo, and Stripe-Throated Bulbul -- much to our resident birdwatchers' delight!
- August 2007 - A pair of the shy and unusual Blue-Winged Pittas has been sighted several times in the garden at Rimbun Dahan over the last week. Usually a winter migrant to this area, these pittas might even be a breeding pair!
- June 2007 - A Black-Crowned Night Heron visits the pond at Rimbun Dahan.
- April 2007 - As the Selangor State Government
will not guarantee the protection of the Sungai Buloh Nature Park, some
specimens of rare water plant Cryptocoryne minima have been
transferred to a new home at Rimbun Dahan.
- August 2006 - A trip to Belum yields
a sighting of a unique insect, while back home at Rimbun Dahan a large
snake is discovered camped out in the well.
- June 2006 - A new camera with a zoom lens
brings us Rimbun Dahan's very own peanut gallery - a selection of intimate
portraits of the local troupe of leaf monkeys.
- March 2006 - Something is stirring in
the leaf litter at Rimbun Dahan, when wet weather brings out unusual
fungi.
- January 2006 - The ripe fruit from the
rambutan trees at Rimbun Dahan are a feast for humans and monkeys, including
the ubiquitous long-tailed macaque and the less common dusky langur.
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