Mid this year, i join my friend to do camera traps inspection and we go for night survey in the plantation. We are very eager to go for that night survey but then when we enter our vehicle, we realize that our spotlight is not working because of the connection failure. So, my friend became a McGyver and he connect the wire directly to the battery so our spotlight is working. We continue to do our survey in the plantation area. There is where we saw this Malay Civet (
Viverra tangalunga). The funny things is this animal keep on walking nearby the road even though we are there and we can see clearly what it is doing. We observed it for about 10 minutes and then it left us.
However, we can not take a good photo of it because i am not good in operate our camera. It was keep moving on the ground and i am in our vehicle trying to take the very best view of it. But, i took a very bad photos and my friend took these two photos. It quite good because we still can see the morphological characters of this animal. It is still clearly can be identified as Malay Civet though. It was a great experienced but we have to turn back after a while because it was raining after that.
Mid this year, i join my friend to do camera traps inspection and we go for night survey in the plantation. We are very eager to go for that night survey but then when we enter our vehicle, we realize that our spotlight is not working because of the connection failure. So, my friend became a McGyver and he connect the wire directly to the battery so our spotlight is working. We continue to do our survey in the plantation area. There is where we saw this Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga). The funny things is this animal keep on walking nearby the road even though we are there and we can see clearly what it is doing. We observed it for about 10 minutes and then it left us. 
However, we can not take a good photo of it because i am not good in operate our camera. It was keep moving on the ground and i am in our vehicle trying to take the very best view of it. But, i took a very bad photos and my friend took these two photos. It quite good because we still can see the morphological characters of this animal. It is still clearly can be identified as Malay Civet though. It was a great experienced but we have to turn back after a while because it was raining after that.
4 comments:
Even though you had problems with your spotlight and with rain, it looks like you had a good time. I have wanted to get pictures of animals at night, but I haven't gotten any yet.
Yes, sure we have a good time because we can observed this animals very close. This animal is a nocturnal so we only can observed it in the wild at night. So, we are lucky. Don't worry, it is only patient and observed carefully, you will see one. Good luck. :)
is this animal under protected species?
Hi Anonym (it would be better if you left your name..:-))
Okay, as for this species in the IUCN Red List is is listed as Least Concern because it has a relatively wide distribution, appears to be tolerant of degraded habitats, and occurs in a number of protected areas. It has a presumed large population, however, little is known about population sizes across its range.
If you want to see more information about the species you can look in IUCN website: http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41708/0
Good Luck!
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Rose Ragai
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