A dazzling variety of mushrooms sprout along hiking trails to satisfy shutterbugs.
Wild animals are elusive, but there is a great chance of stumbling onto many of them when you go hiking after a downpour.
Most amphibians and reptiles go into a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression when it is dry; a bout of heavy rain sends them scampering out again. Your hiking trip then also becomes a herping trip.
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The writer pausing during her hike on the Penang Hill range to take a close-up picture of mushrooms sprouting out of a log.
The giant blue scorpion’s coloration glows under the moonlight.
A giant millipede slithers its way through the forest.
Dead caecilian
A dazzling variety of mushrooms sprout along hiking trails to satisfy shutterbugs.
A dazzling variety of mushrooms sprout along hiking trails to satisfy shutterbugs.
Cantor’s langur, also called the spectacled langur, is rather shy.
The shell of a spiny turtle loses its ring of spikes when it reaches adulthood.
A dazzling variety of mushrooms sprout along hiking trails to satisfy shutterbugs.
A venomous female Wagler’s pit viper.
Male Wagler's Pit Viper
A trilobite
