moth...
...a green bamboo viper. Small, thin, green with red eyes and a triangular head. A very venomous snake common in bamboo forests...there was another bamboo viper nearby, smaller, but no less deadly!
a type of taro plant. Wild boars love to eat its roots. When you see the leaves of these plants moving, RUN! Especially with young, the female boar is very dangerous, as their tusks have poisonous edges that can cause human skin to rot...
a banyan tree, whose roots have strangled a huge boulder. This tree, as legend has it, grew from a seed that was excreted by a flying bird. Over the years, it grew big and strong, and even other species of trees and plants have shrouded themselves around the tree
bamboo, used for building huts and hunting tools, also for cooking and eating
The Maple Myrtle, with its rough skin is difficult for monkeys to climb on, so it is also known as "Monkey-don't-climb"
The tree is very drought resistant, and at night the roots secrete a sweet nectar that attracts a myriad of insects and beetles.
The tree is very drought resistant, and at night the roots secrete a sweet nectar that attracts a myriad of insects and beetles.
The Formosan Ash, indigenous to the island, is also known as "bare wax tree". the bark is smooth and looks like its peeling. It is often used as firewood by the aboriginals, because the wood ignites easily. However due to regulations of the national park, it is forbidden to cut down these trees... another form of government infringement into the lives and ways of the aboriginals...
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