The Reticulated Python
The Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus) is Asia’s largest and heaviest snake, and ties with the South American anaconda as the...
The Blue-tailed Bee Eater
This petite bird seems much too small to be preying on bees—but this trait of the Blue-tailed Bee Eater (Merops philippinus) actually...
The Rain Tree
Can a person love a tree? RIMBA student volunteer Nor Afiza bt Rahman definitely thinks so, as she describes her favourite Rain Tree:...
The Asian Glossy Starling
It’s hard to miss this loquacious bird. The Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis) is usually seen squabbling noisily with its peers...
The Weird, Wild and Wonderful
Inspired by the tropical beauty of Malaysia, Alfred Russel Wallace (author of The Malay Archipelago) wrote: ‘Should civilised man… bring...
Springtime in UM
At least four tree species are flowering in the University of Malaya, as reported by one of our #RIMBAstalks correspondents, Benjamin...
RIMBA at 5 Saves Campaign@UTAR
by Vanessa Ting On the 19th to 20th of August 2014, University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) organised the 5 Saves Campaign 'Sustain the...
What's in a name?--Blowflies and Selangor
by T.G. Goh The etymology of the name of the Selangor state has been lost to time. But one of the many hypotheses proposed is that it is...
“Springtime” in Kuala Lumpur: The Penang Sakura
Words and pictures by Benjamin Ong Every once a year (or so) it is “springtime” in Malaysia, when lush seas of green inexplicably...
Okayama Joto High School comes to Rimba Ilmu!
by Benjamin Ong Japan's Oyakama Joto High School sent a delegation of nearly 100 students and a handful of teachers to UM for a short...
