Soldier Crabs

During low tide, thousands of soldier crabs will emerged from their burrow for feeding. They will have to feed before the tide return. Soldier crabs feed on detritus in the sand or mud. They will scoop up sand and mud with their front claws and sift through the sand for food, dropping unwanted sand and mud which form the ball shaped sands.

Butterfly Puddling

Saw thousands of butterfly along the trail when I was at Kaeng Krachan Nature Park of Thailand last month.

Is believed that male butterflies are more likely the one that do puddling. When butterfly sips water from the ground, they also take in traces of minerals that dissolved in the water.

Mammals at Kaeng Krachan Thailand

I was at Kaeng Krachan, Thailand last week supposedly a birding trip but was attracted to many of their non-bird vertebrates. Thanks to Marcus Chua for the id!!

Western striped squirrels (Tamiops mcclellandii)
Lesser mousedeer (Tragulus kanchil)
Grey-bellied squirrels (Callosciurus caniceps)
Indochinese ground squirrels (Menetes berdmorei)
Northen treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri)
This must be my lucky year... I even got to see this big cat - a leopard face to face!!

I certainly will go back again to explore another part of the park!