What Would You Say When You See This?

As i walk through the street i saw this animals using Santa Claus accessories and i am quite surprise saw it. The owner told me that this dog really like to use coutfits and it have several more collections, seems to be for every festive season he have one at least.

He looks sad though in this outfit maybe because it can't moves freely. We can't tell what he feels because animals can't talk but we can see from how it behave. It was walking very slow and it's face is not happy at all.

But when i get closer to it, it want to be friendly. Hmm...pity for this little dog.

Sea Horse in the market?

Now i am not walking in the forest or am swimming in the sea but i am walking on the street and i found this little creature. It is a sea horse and it is supposed to be in the water, in the sea particularly. Hmm..people sell it for medicine and i am not sure for what kind of illness. This is really a lot but i forgot to ask how much they sell it per kilo.

I am not quite sure if this is legal or illegal to be sell openly in the market like this. So, pity for this little creature. I never saw any of it lively in the sea but hopefully when i have a chance to divi in the deep sea i will have a chance to see it alive not dead like this. Very sorry to see things like this.

Biological Diversity

I have a very complicated thought in these few days in understanding this topic. I am doing some reading on related articles includes Magurran (2004). I get through her book a few times and only understand a few days ago. Only now I understand why I need to do sampling. I get the raw data and this data will give me much more information about the communities in that selected areas that have been sampled. Okay, what I have understood?


Biological Diversity - the great variety of life

Biological diversity can be quantified in many different ways and Magurran (2004) has been reviewed so many publication on this term and she define biological diversity as “the variety and abundance of species in a defined unit of study” in her book Measuring Biological Diversity.

The two main factors taken into account when measuring diversity are richness and evenness.

So, different author will define this concept in different ways and sometimes i think it is depends on what field is the person are specialized in. Hmm...so, when i read more publications there will be different ways of they describe it but then i prefer to follow Magurran (2004) because her definition fits my work. This will be great.

BINTULU...the beach

This is the sunset at Bintulu Promenade where i use to jogging and sometimes just sit there with my friend. Viewing this beautiful scenery.

Tanjung Batu beach is also a nice place to watch the sunset. It is just 10 minutes drive from Bintulu town.

I took it at the same postion but this one looks very nice....

Myself & Malay Civet

My friend send this photo to me a few days ago. I like it though and it is just for fun. He play with the photo editing and this is the result. It was a photo of myself holding Malay Civet. This is for small carnivore study that done by one of our partner in our research works. It was my first time holding lively Malay Civet in my hand (by the way, it was anesthetized using some drugs). If it is not, i will not dare to hold it in my arms like that. For sure it will bite me.

As usual, i will say it was a great experienced and lucky i have one. :)

PDF File Download

I am trying to download one journal that i really need for my reference but i tried a few times and i keep can't download it. This is really make me lost my patient. I am here in my uni because i thought it will be easier for me to find reference and i can use internet access to the journal online. Sometimes, i think this library didn't work as it suppose to work for us, students. I am studying ecology and i have problem to search for ecology reference here. It was so limited but to think positively, it is already quite good though...But this time i really piss off...huh!!

Somebody help me to get this article......

Colwell, R. K., and Coddington, J. A. 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity
through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B)
345:101-118.