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What is frogging? Tourists hop to rainforests in Borneo to spot exotic amphibians
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.
A four-lined tree frog at Kubah National Park in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. Photo: AFP
The park is home to some of the world's smallest and most unusual
frog species