18 APR 09
The other Rachel is studying nocturnal primates, and as an amateur primate enthusiast (sounds more important and less weird than 'monkey lover'), I join her when she chooses to go out at sensible times. I made the mistake of getting up at 3am once but it was a bit too tiring...
...that's not to say it wasn't worth it though. It was actually that morning that I saw the slow loris. They're little furry animals that live quite high up in the trees and can be spotted by their 'eye-shine', which is how Rachel saw him/her at the end of our walk. It wasn't quite daylight but it was posssible to make out his shape until he closed his eyes and it was no more likely that we were looking at a loris than a leaf.
The night before last we went out at about 11pm and saw all sorts of frogs, spiders and a small-toothed palm civet. We've seen a couple of different civets, which look a little like cats but are more closely related to mongooses. We've also come across sleeping birds and a snake in a tree.
Rachel and Ridzwan are off on a 2am stroll tonight, but I've decided not to join them this time. It's been raining heavily since last night as we hadn't had any real rain for two days before that. The water was covering the path to our rooms so much tonight that I had to go to dinner wearing welly boots after soaking my trainers getting to the room in the first place.
The generator's going off now so I'll leave it at that for tonight.
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