Category Archives: Animals

Photos of animals, including birds. See Curious Cat Science Blog blog posts on animals.

Common Sandpiper, Tanjung Piai National Park, Malaysia

4 common sandpipers running on the beach

Common sandpipers on the beach in Tanjung Piai National Park – the Southernmost Point in Continental Asia (near Johor Bahru, Malaysia and Singapore).

The Birds look like they are the “common sandpiper” to me but please comment if you have an accurate identification.

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Photo of Possum at Night Adjusted with Auto Levels

This photo still isn’t any good but I was amazed what happened when I just clicked adjust color and then auto levels in Apple’s Preview application.

Possum photo unadjusted (essentially all black)

So essentially you can see nothing. But just that one click resulted in this:

blurry photo of a possum

It is still a bad photo but you can see much more. This is a photo of a possum in my backyard at night.

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Orangutan with a Baby Orangutan in a Tree

Orangutan in tree with a baby

This photo of an Orangutan with baby was taken by John Hunter at Semenggoh National Park in Borneo, Malaysia. See more photos, information and a video of these 2 orangutans.

The photos on this blog are by John Hunter. See many more of my photos organized by tag at Curious Cat Photos.

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