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  • Halmahera villager climbing a tree using a foot strap made from rattan.
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • A colorful fallen leaf in the rain forest of Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Flowering Costus plant.  (Costus sp.) in a rain forest clearing in Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Fan palms growing in the rain forest understory in Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Fruits hang from a fruiting palm tree in a rain forest in Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus) in flight over rain forest in Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Edwin Scholes and local guide Jun walk through a freshly cleared field in the rain forest of Halmahera
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  • Macro shot of a fan palm in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Layers of sedimentary rock exposed in a small rain forest creek on Halmahera Island, Indonesia.<br />
This area, know as "Batu Putih" meaning White Rock, produces milky sediments in the runoff.
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  • Rain forest interior view with lianas.<br />
Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Fan palm in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • WAterfront houses in Sidangoli, Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano, Ternate, Indonesia
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  • View of Volcanic peaks of Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia from the sea.
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  • View of Volcanic peaks of Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia from the sea.
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  • Speedboat dock in Ternate, Indonesia.
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  • New Mosque under construction in Ternate, Indonesia
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  • Mother and baby Borneo Pygmy Elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) drink at a stream.
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  • A young Borneo Pygmy Elephant on a river bank.
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  • A close view of the face of a Borneo Pygmy Elephant.
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  • Borneo Pygmy Elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) feeding.
    Borneo Pygmy Elephant Feeding.jpg
  • Female Borneo Pygmy Elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis) with a baby.
    Borneo Pygmy Elephant Family.jpg
  • A Carrier Crab carries an Upside-down Jelly fish on its back.  This species of crab frequently carries objects as a form of camouflage.  The Upside-down Jellyfish has symbiotic algae in its tentacles, and keeps them pointed upward to catch the most sunlight.
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  • A cleaner shrimp services a cardinal fish at its cleaning station on the reef, where other fish are lined up for cleaning.  Their red color is not visible underwater so their white limbs contrast highly against their black body to advertise where the cleaning stations are.
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  • Crab-eyed Gobies displaying.  False eyespots mimic a large predator like a grouper.
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  • Inimicus spiny devilfish (Inimicus didactylus) in its normal camouflaged position.  It spends most of its time camouflagued waiting for pray .
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  • The small male and large female spinecheek anemnefish (Premnas biaculeatus) showing color difference.  In this species, juveniles all grow into males first, and then males later turn into females if they get their own anemone.  There is only one female per anemone.  Wakatobi Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia.  June 2004.
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  • Cleaner shrimp, Lysmata debelius, on the nose of a laced moray eel (Gymnothorax favagineus), Bali, Indonesia
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  • Comet (Calloplesiops altivelis aka Calloplesiops argus).  When alarmed, this fish sticks its head into a hole and leaves its tail exposed, mimicing the appearance of a moray eel (specifically, it mimics the Whitemouth Moray, Gymnothorax meleagris).  This image shows the fish in a normal pose.
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  • The small male and large female spinecheek anemnefish (Premnas biaculeatus) showing color difference.  In this species, juveniles all grow into males first, and then males later turn into females if they get their own anemone.  Only one female per anemone.  Wakatobi Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia.  June 2004.
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  • A cleaner shrimp services a cardinal fish at its cleaning station on the reef, where other fish are lined up for cleaning.  Their red color is not visible underwater so their white limbs contrast highly against their black body to advertise where the cleaning stations are.
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  • Seed of the Bornean ironwood tree shown dwarfing the size of the barely visible seed of a strangler fig tree.
    Seed Comparison.jpg
  • Researcher Cheryl Knott climbs a rope into a giant canopy tree with stranger fig tree roots growing down its side.  Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, Indonesia.
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  • Researcher Cheryl Knott climbs a rope into a giant canopy tree with stranger fig tree roots growing down its side.  Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, Indonesia.
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  • A male fighting wasp, also an opportunist, emerges from a fig. His enlarged mandibles may have served him inside in a battle over mates, but-winner or los er-he will take only a step or two before he dies.
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  • Strangler Fig (Ficus sp.) that has killed its host tree long ago.  The host has rotted away, leaving a hollow center.  Lowland rain forest in Borneo.  Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia.
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  • Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) growing on its host tree.  Its roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground.   Lowland rain forest in Borneo.  Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia.  Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.)
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  • Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) growing on its host tree.  Its roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground.   Lowland rain forest in Borneo.  Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia.  Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.)
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  • Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) growing on its host tree.  Its roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground.   Lowland rain forest in Borneo.  Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia.  Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.)
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  • A butterfly sips juice from a fig.
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  • A Bornean White-bearded Gibbon (Hylobates albibarbis) with young clinging to her as she swings through the rai n forest canopy in search of strangler figs to eat.  Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, Indonesia.
    Bornean White-bearded Gibbon.jpg
  • A Polyrhacis ant on a strangler fig leaf.
    Ant On Fig Leaf.jpg
  • A Polyrhachis ant discards a morsel of strangler fig pulp from its nest after extracting the seeds to eat later.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Sunset from Ternate Island, Indonesia.
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  • Hiri Island viewed from a volcanic rock beach on Ternate Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano.  Active volcano on Ternate Island, with lava in the foreground from an eruption in the 1800's.
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  • Fort Tolukko, restored Portugese fort dating from 1512 overlooking Ternate harbor.  Ternate is the ancient capitol of the spice trade.
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  • Fort Tolukko, restored Portugese fort dating from 1512 overlooking Ternate harbor.  Ternate is the ancient capitol of the spice trade.
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  • Fort Tolukko, restored Portugese fort dating from 1512 overlooking Ternate harbor.  Ternate is the ancient capitol of the spice trade.
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  • Spice warehouse in Ternate.  Pile of cacao beans for making chocolate.
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  • Market in Tobelo town, Halmahera Island, Indonesia.  <br />
Detail of dried fish.
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  • Morning light in the rain forest.  Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Morning light in the rain forest.  Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Canopy platform used for photographing and filming Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • Photographer Tim Laman lowering equipment with a rope and pulley from the canopy platform used to photograph Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • Early morning light in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.<br />
<br />
Alfred Russel Wallace was doing fieldwork in Halmahera when he wrote his famous letter on his theory of Natural Selection which he sent to Darwin from Ternate.
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  • Early morning light in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Early morning light in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Edwin Scholes enjoys yet another meal of rice and instant noodles at our field camp at Labilabi, Halmahera.<br />
Alfred Russel Wallace spent a month at what was probably a similar field camp in Halmahera in 1858, when he wrote his famous essay on natural selection that he sent to Darwin.
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  • Nest of Ivory-breasted Pitta with egg visible.  The nest is built on the base of a dead palm tree, and is a roofed over hut.
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  • Photographer Tim Laman on ladder climb to canopy platform.
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  • Photographer Tim Laman on ladder climb to canopy platform.
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  • View of Tim Laman's camera in his blind where he just captured a portrait of the Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • An orb-weaving spider on its web.
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  • Stick insect.
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  • Rain pours of the palm thatch roof of the garden hut were we were staying while shooting Wallace's Standardwing in Halmahera.
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  • Rain forest view.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Rain forest view.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Men construct a canopy giant ladder and canopy platform from poles and vines.
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  • Tim Laman travels by pumpboat along the coast of Halmahera between sites searching for Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • Setting full moon over Wasile Bay, Halmahera.
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  • Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor)
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  • Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor)
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  • Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
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  • Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
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  • Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus) female in flight.
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  • A rain forest stream, Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • White-lipped Tree Frog (Litoria infrafrenata), also known as Australasian Giant Tree Frog.
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  • Bird of Paradise researcher Edwin Scholes descends from a canopy platform used to film Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • Invisible Rail (also called Drummer Rail) (Habroptila wallacii) photographed in Foli Village, Halmahera, Indonesia.  <br />
This little known species is endemic to Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.  <br />
Captive bird captured by village boys of Foli and photographed outside the village.
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  • Fan palm details, Kali Batu Puti.
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Macro shot of a fan palm in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Rufous-bellied Triller (Lalage aurea).<br />
Endemic to Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano, Ternate, Indonesia
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano, Ternate, Indonesia
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  • Hiri Island north of Ternate, Indonesia.
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  • Two young male Borneo Pygmy Elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis) tussle in dense vegetation.
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  • A young male Borneo Pygmy Elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) plays in the water.
    Borneo Pygmy Elephant Splashing.jpg
  • A young Borneo Pygmy Elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) on a river bank.
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  • A group of Borneo Pygmy Elephants includes a large male with a radio collar around his neck.
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  • A close-up of the eyes of a smashing peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus).  These highly comlex eyes can detect UV and polarized light.  Each circle on the surface of the eye is a cornea that admits light.
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