Dodging fire ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean rainforest, scanning with torches for some of the jungle’s most unlikely stars: frogs.
“There’s another one! And it’s massive,” British tourist Lauren Heywood exclaims as she spots the telltale reflective glint off a pair of blinking eyes.
“Frogging”, or the hunt for the exotic amphibians that call the rainforest home, is taking off in Malaysia’s Sarawak state in Borneo.
And herpetologists – those who study reptiles and amphibians – say few places rival Kubah National Park, around half an hour’s drive from the state capital, Kuching.
The park is home to some of the world’s smallest and most unusual frog species.
