Roadkills in UPMKB

To access the city of Bintulu from UPMKB, one has to travel a single stretch of 4km of asphalt road to the guard house at Li Hua Garden. Lined by secondary forests, wild animals often wander off the roadsides and if unlucky, would sometimes end up squashed into flat carcasses. As a frequent user of this particular road, both as a pedestrian and a cyclist, I regularly see dead animals being ran over by cars or motorbikes. Although the population of the wild animals drops due to this event, but this is an interesting way of recording what wildlife does UPMKB forest actually has. Let me share with you some images from my record.

A young Sunbeam Snake (Xenopeltis unicolor), one of the common victim.

Found just seconds after being hit by a vehicle, the Spotted Keelback Snake(Xenochrophis maculatus) is still alive and slithering but soon will meet its sad demise.

Very colorful species.

And a young Short-tailed Python (Python breitensteinii) is found squashed flat too.

Asian forest scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer) 

A common species, the Painted Bronzeback Tree Snake (Dendralaphis pictus) were also found regularly.

A small arachnid tarantulu on hand.

Luckily I found this guy before any car ran it over, Black-spotted Sticky Frog (Kalophrynus pleurostigma).

And here we have a full sized adult male Tarantula sp., with a 20 cent coin in comparison of size. Huge guy indeed.

And as I continue to stay in UPMKB, I will definitely keep finding more and more and hopefully new species of roadkills. I also pla to collect their carcasses to do taxidermy too, otherwise it would be such a waste.