Whilst radio tracking binturongs during her research at Maliau in Sabah, Miyabi Nakabayashi discovered that one of her radio-tagged binturongs was feeding on ripe figs in a Ficus annulata fig growing in a swampy area near the Maliau Field Studies Centre.
When we visited Maliau, the Ficus annulata fig was not fruiting. As can be seen in the photo above the F. annulata fig is growing on the remnants of a small dead tree in a swampy area covered in lallang grass, next to the main road about 500m from the Maliau Basin Study Centre. Note that the dead tree trunk is much larger than the roots of the fig.
