🇲🇾 Animals of Malaysia

The Asian palm civet is a small, cat-like viverrid of South and Southeast Asia that climbs trees at night to eat fruit.

The binturong is a large, shaggy civet of the South and Southeast Asian forest canopy.

The Bornean orangutan is the largest tree-living animal in the world.

The clownfish lives inside the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone, which it cleans and defends in return.

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake.

The leopard cat is a small spotted cat found across South, Southeast and East Asia, from Pakistan to the Russian Far East.

The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile.

The sun bear is the smallest and most arboreal bear, a black bear of the Southeast Asian rainforest with an orange crescent on its chest.

The tiger is the largest living cat and the only one with stripes.

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.