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Bushbrowns (Genus Mycalesis)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This butterfly looks like a moth due to its dusty and dull colour. It is mainly dusty brown colour and has many eyespots. The eyespots are round and has several circles inside it. It also has a straight white line running vertically along its wing. Its wing is shaped triangularly but its not sharp instead irregular and round.
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White Tiger Butterfly (Danaus melanippus)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This butterfly is mainly black, white and orange. When I first saw it, it was hard to tell where it was black veined tiger or common tiger due to its colour. But it is black veined tiger because it has much wider black border on its hindwing than in the common tiger. It has oval shaped abdomen that is bright orange. It doesn't have eyespots. It has white sub apical band on its forewing. Its wingspan is approximately 8-9cm.
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Blue Glassy Tiger (Ideopsis vulgaris)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This butterfly is mainly black and white. It looks quite similar to Dark Glassy Tiger but it has slightly blue and has a transverse black bar in its forewing. It has veins. It's approximately 7 cm when its wings open. Its wings looks quite symmetrical to each other. Its antenna is not very long.
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Paradise Flying Snake (Chrysopelea paradisi)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This snake is black in colour, with white spots. It has regular pattern on its body but closer to its face the pattern seems irregular. It has a flattened head with large round black eyes. Its belly scale is light yellowish white colour. It's approximately 1m long.
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Calico-Flower (Aristolochia littoralis)Observer
ki_moonDescription
Both its leaves and flowers are huge. The leaves are bright green and large heart-shaped.The flowers grow in the leaf axils. It is very unusual shaped and is blackish purple and white. It is also soft, thick and furry. The flower is bigger than my hand and so is its leaves.
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Grass Darts and Darters (Tribe Taractrocerini)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This butterfly is very small compare to other ones I found. It's bright orange with few black spots and stripes. Its abdomen is short and fat. Also it looks like bee's abdomen as it yellow and has black stripes. It has very long antennae compare its body.
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African Giant Snail (Lissachatina fulica)Observer
ki_moonDescription
Its shell is various brown colours and it's transparent. The brown colours get lighter towards its end. The shell of this snail was a length of my pinky finger with a diameter of half of its length.
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Earthworms and Allies (Subclass Oligochaeta)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This is an earthworm. It's very thin and long. It is shiny brown with peach colour around its neck. It is approximately 10cm in length. Its front part where its mouth is, is sharp compare to its back which is round. Its eyes or a nose are not found.
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Trailing Daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata)Observer
ki_moonDescription
Both flowers and leaves are small. The flowers are bright yellow with 8-15 petals. Its petals are more rectangular shape than rounded. The leaves are dark green and hairy. It doesn't have specific shape and it's irregular. It is around 0.5 in height.
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Grass Yellows (Genus Eurema)Observer
ki_moonDescription
It's lime yellow with few brown marks on its wings. It doesn't have any eyespots. It is approximately 5cm in width. Everything including its legs and eyes are lime yellow except its antennae which is solid black but is slightly orange at the tip of its antennae.
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Bougainvilleas (Genus Bougainvillea)Observer
ki_moonDescription
The tree is approximately 2m tall. The flowers are pink and white and it's very thin. It has 4-5 petals. The leaves are bright green and smaller than the flower itself.
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Zebra Dove (Geopelia striata)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This bird is small but it has a long narrow tail. It's mainly brownish-grey colour with blue-grey around its face including its beak. It approximately 20cm or slightly smaller. Its eyes are round and fully black. Its legs are solid purple colour.
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Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta ssp. elegans)Observer
ki_moonDescription
A small turtle that's around twice the size of my hand. It has long black tail with few yellow spots. Unlike its face and neck, its leg looks very thick and separated like drought ground.
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Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This saw is mostly black except its bill which is orangish red. This swan likes to both stay in water and on land.
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Miagos Bush (Osmoxylon lineare)Observer
ki_moonDescription
It's 1m - 1.2m in height. The flower is an unmberella-like shape, they arise from a common point. The flowers are white, green and yellow. The fruit is around 0.3cm in diameter and they are dark purple.
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Butterflies (Superfamily Papilionoidea)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This butterfly is big as it was still visible from far distance. It is mainly black with white stripes and dots on its wings. It is yellow at the bottom of its forewings. Its abdomen is striped black and white. It has very rounded eyes with long antennae.
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Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies (Order Gentianales)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This flower Five petaled. It's bright pink and fades whiter inside. The flower is around 5cm in diameter. The leaves are bright green and even though it's small, it's wider near middle.
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Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier)Observer
ki_moonDescription
The bird is small around the same size as zebra dove. Its bill is long (compare to its body) and it's solid black colour. The feathers are white near its face and brown on its body and tail. It's yellow near its flank and thigh.
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Asian Common Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)Observer
ki_moonDescription
Toadlet. It's dark greenish brown colour. It is smaller than my thumb, around 3cm. It's very bumpy and rough. Its eyes are very big and round. It's hard to see from the picture but it has strips on its legs and few irregular patterns on its body.
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Hibiscuses (Genus Hibiscus)Observer
ki_moonDescription
The flowers are 5-petaled, trumpet shaped and pinkish red in colour. The petals are really thin and wrinkly. The leaves are dark green and it has oval and spiky on the side.
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Crepe Jasmine (Tabernaemontana divaricata)Observer
ki_moonDescription
The plant is approximately 1.5m tall. I saw same plants but they were all different heights. The flower is white and five-petaled. It has yellow stigma. The leaves are bright green, it's wider near middle and about the size of my index finger.
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Lemon Migrant (Catopsilia pomona)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This butterfly is bright green and it has brownish black stripes on its apex. It flies very high but slow. This butterfly was bigger than others I found. But because of its colour, it was hard to find.
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Brown Pansy (Junonia hedonia)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This butterfly look similar to Tawny Coster. Its upper side is bright orange but its underside is dark dusty brown. It has many eyespots that are different in colours and sizes. There is no white spots found on this butterfly but its black patterns looks symmetrical to its opposite wings. It has long and thin body.
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Tawny Coster (Acraea terpsicore)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This is a male tawny coaster as it is deep orange colour. The wings are wide. Its approximately 5cm or smaller. Its forewing has a transverse black spot in the cell. The hindwing has black spots in the cell and also have regular white spots around its outline. There is also some white spots close to its abdomen.
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Oriental Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor)Observer
ki_moonDescription
This lizard is light brown/ green colour with spikes running down from the back of its head. I have very long tail compare to common house gecko. This lizard has few rounded brown spots along its tail. It's approximately 10cm-15cm including its tail.
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Elephant Creeper (Argyreia nervosa)Observer
ki_moonDescription
The flower is trumpet shaped and pink/purple and fades darker inside. The outside of the flowers are creamy white. The bottom of the flowers looks and feels like Chinese Cabbage as it's thick and watery. The green leaves are large and most of them are bigger than my hand. The leaves are heart-shaped and longer in the middle.
