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The bark is used for medicine and dye, treating wounds and sores. The wood makes everything from houses to canoes, drums, and charcoal.

This Ficus plant cleans the air and absorbs sound, making your space fresher and quieter!

Produce bright red flower spikes which are very rich in nectar and attract many birds.

Famous for its fragrance, this plant’s flowers and bark help with diabetes, wounds, heart issues, gout, and more!

This timber is perfect for heavy construction, furniture, bridges, boat building, railway sleepers, flooring, vehicle bodies, staircases, columns, tool handles, and more where strength and durability are key!

Crows are considered to be among the smartest birds on the planet. They can solve complex, multi-step puzzles, make up to 23 different sounds and imitate human language and recognize individual human faces

It’s a versatile softwood used for construction, boat masts, furniture, matches, plywood, and even as herbs and spices!

The Chinese use the bark to treat fever and arthritis, as it contains salicylic acid, the key ingredient in aspirin. It’s also great for erosion control and absorbs ethanol and benzene.

Great egrets grow delicate, all-white feathers during their breeding season that were popular for hats and other fashionable apparel items during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

At 1.5 m in length and 4.5 kg in mass, goliath herons are the largest of all living herons. They have a wingspan of 2m.

Guppies give birth to live young instead of laying eggs. The eggs develop inside the female, and when the time is right, the baby guppies pop out and swim away.

Rain Tree fights colds, stomachaches, and headaches, with seeds used for sore throats. It provides great shade for crops like cocoa and coffee, and its leaves fold up in the rain to protect them.

Golden Penda is a tough tree that withstands pollution, heat, and poor soil, while offering nectar for birds and insects.

This tree offers cool shade, bright flowers, and red seeds for decor, while its tough, reddish-brown wood makes stunning furniture and builds!

Leaves are used for cajuput oil, treating ailments like stomach aches and burns. The hardy tree’s wood is perfect for carving and cabinetry, while its bark insulates boats.

The timber is great for furniture and construction. The bark makes a brown dye, young shoots are edible, and the fruit adds spice to cooking. Roots and twigs are used in medicine for fevers, diarrhea, and post-labor tonic.

This tropical tree’s lush foliage and compact size make it perfect for privacy screens and shade. Its strong, reddish-brown wood is used for construction, tool handles, and slow-burning firewood.

Kingfishers have excellent eyesight and can see into the water, adjusting for refraction. They also have a transparent third eyelid that allows them to see prey while diving.

Koi can live for over 200 years, and the oldest koi ever recorded was Hanako, who lived to be 226 years old.

The national fish of Malaysia.

Migrating mallards can reach speeds of 55 mph, outpacing many other waterfowl. While they typically cruise at altitudes below 10,000 feet, they can soar much higher. In 1962, a mallard collided with a commercial airliner at a record-breaking altitude of 21,000 feet.

In Peninsular Malaysia, leaf poultices of E. mastersii are used to treat headache.

Meranti is a versatile, budget-friendly wood used in furniture, boatbuilding, and construction. Its rich red color makes it perfect for stylish finishes and modern furniture.

Mynahs are able to learn to mimic human voices or any sounds they choose.

Vital for protecting riverbanks from flood erosion.

They are small songbirds, at most 12 cm long. In most subspecies, the underparts of both male and female are bright yellow, the backs are a dull brown colour. The forehead, throat and upper breast of the adult male is a dark, metallic blue-black.

Temerloh is known as the Patin Capital of Malaysia. Patin from Temerloh is highly sought after, and can be expensive.

This sour, vitamin C-packed fruit is used in food, medicine, and even as shampoo or teeth blackener! Its wood makes furniture, and leaves, seeds, and bark heal various ailments.

Young shoots and leaves are edible and help with inflammation, itching, stomach aches, and recovery after delivery. Large leaves are used to wrap food like tempeh or form cones for dishes like rojak.

Snakeheads can "walk" on land by moving their head and back fin in opposite directions

They have elongated snouts with nostrils at the tip, allowing them to breathe while partially submerged, similar to a snorkel.

The bark treats fever and dysentery, while the leaves help with diarrhea. Tembusu wood is used in construction and for hawker chopping boards in Singapore.

They get their name from their shimmering scales that resemble tinfoil, giving them a metallic look. Tinfoil barbs are social creatures and prefer to live in groups.1 It's best to keep them in a school of at least five or more.

Tortoises are a very old reptile species, originating around 220 million years ago. They coexisted with dinosaurs. Tortoises are the only animals with backbones that also have a shell. Their shells are made of 59–61 bones covered by plates called scutes, which are made of keratin, the same substance in human fingernails.