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  1. Bats assemblage and lunar phase effect on bat activity at mixed dipterocarp Forest, Gunung Gading National Park, Sarawak, Borneo
    Mohd-Ridwan A, Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir, Mohamad Haikal Bin Eshak, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan, Gábor Csorba & Tamás Görföl
    Sains Malaysiana, 2018;47:1349-1357.
    Bat surveys at Gunung Gading National Park (GGNP) were conducted for 29 non-consecutive nights, which consisted
    of five separate sampling sessions from November 2011 until November 2015. A total of 378 individuals representing
    36 species from six families were captured, from an accumulated effort of 435 trapping nights. This corresponds to
    approximately 39% (n=36) of the total species recorded in Borneo. The most commonly captured species in GGNP for
    insectivorous bats was Rhinolophus affinis (20.1%), whereas for frugivorous bats Penthetor lucasi (14.3%) dominated the
    capture. Species accumulation curve reached asymptote on the 24th sampling night suggesting that sampling saturation
    has been achieved for the trapping sites studied here. The species diversity (H’= 2.75) showed relatively high diversity
    of bat species in the park compared to other actively surveyed sites in western Sarawak including Bako National Park
    (Bako NP), Kubah National Park (Kubah NP) and Mount Penrisen (Mt Penrisen). This was further supported through
    rarefaction analysis showing that GGNP has largest value of estimated species compared to other actively surveyed
    sites in western Sarawak. Lunar phase and bat capture rate correlation analysis showed that there is no statistically
    significant relationship between lunar phase and the bat capture rate at GGNP. This suggests that bat activity reported
    here were not affected by moonlight. The results from these surveys provided the most comprehensive list of bats for
    GGNP. Our study highlights the importance of GGNP as an important habitat for bat conservation including the rare bat
    species found in Borneo, Phoniscus atrox.
  2. Gastrointestinal parasites of zoonotic importance observed in the wild, urban, and captive populations of non-human primates in Malaysia
    Adrus M, Zainudin R, Ahamad M, Jayasilan MA, Abdullah MT
    J Med Primatol, 2019 02;48(1):22-31.
    PMID: 30370934 DOI: 10.1111/jmp.12389
    BACKGROUND: A study was undertaken to determine gastrointestinal (GI) parasites commonly found in Malaysia's non-human primates (NHP) living in three different types of populations (wild, urban, and captive) and the basis of major GI parasites of zoonotic importance.

    METHODS: A total of 308 samples was collected and microscopically screened from the NHP in the wild (n = 163), urban (n = 76), and captive (n = 69) populations. The samples were taken from 12 species of local NHPs.

    RESULTS: At least, 44 species of GI parasites comprising of protozoans (seven species), nematodes (26 species), cestodes (five species), trematodes (five species), and pentastomida (one species) were detected. There were no significant differences for the overall prevalence and no great differences in GI parasite species among the wild, urban, and captive NHP populations.

    CONCLUSION: The most common GI parasite was Ascaris spp. (49.7%), followed by Oesophagostomum spp. (26.9%), and 31 species discovered in this study are of known public health importance.

  3. Fulltext Modelling the species distribution of flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), an endangered South-East Asian small felid
    Wilting A, Cord A, Hearn AJ, Hesse D, Mohamed A, Traeholdt C, et al.
    PLoS One, 2010;5(3):e9612.
    PMID: 20305809 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009612
    The flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is one of the world's least known, highly threatened felids with a distribution restricted to tropical lowland rainforests in Peninsular Thailand/Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. Throughout its geographic range large-scale anthropogenic transformation processes, including the pollution of fresh-water river systems and landscape fragmentation, raise concerns regarding its conservation status. Despite an increasing number of camera-trapping field surveys for carnivores in South-East Asia during the past two decades, few of these studies recorded the flat-headed cat.
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