A giant short tongued bee. Khao Luang National Park.

Small mud lobster, Thalassina anomala (Crustacea, Decapoda, Thalassinidae) (top photo). Its mound (bottom). Near Trang, southern Thailand. Mud lobsters are the environmental engineers of the mangrove forest. They burrow through the mud feeding on organic material, and the material that is not digestible is piled up outside the burrow. Mud lobsters range from Bombay, India to the east coast of Queensland, Australia. These crustaceans are food for some homalopsid snakes, and the burrows are often used by the snakes. However, many other life forms (mudskippers, crabs, worms, and plants) use these mounds as shelter or places to forage for food. (See Voris and Murphy 2002 Journal of Natural History 36:1621-1632.)

The Small Clawed Otter, Aonyx cinerea. Photographed at Lake Songkhla. This animal had been captured by fishermen, who consider it a pest. The small clawed otter is the smallest of the world's 13 otter species. Widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia, ranging from southern China and southern India southward to into Indonesia and eastward to the Philippines. It uses freshwater streams as well as coastal regions, particularly those with dense vegetation. Food is grabbed with webbed fingers and excellent manual dexterity. The diet including crabs, mussels, frogs, and snails. Females give birth to 1-6 pups, usually 1 or 2. A. cinerea usually lives in family groups of about 12 individuals. Small-clawed otters have a vocabulary of a 12 or more vocalizations, including a distress call.

A hompteran in the genus Pyrops (Homoptera, Fulgoridae) at Khao Luang National Park. This may be P. candelaria, or something closely related to it. It was found at night in a mature rubber plantation. It is commonly called the lantern bug.

Scorpion. South Thailand

An aquatic spider eating a fish in a Khao Luang National Park stream.