This is a very curious animal, which, like the panda and the linsang, at first misled naturalists in assigning it a place. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
These species include many of the twenty-eight of the thirty-four squirrels known from Borneo, numerous bat species, tree shrews, slow loris, tarsier (Tarsius bancanus), grey leaf monkey (Presbytis aygula), red leaf monkey (P. rubicunda), orangutan (P. pygmaeus), Borneo gibbon (Hylobates moloch), linsang (Prionodon linsang), and binturong (Arctictis binturong). From Wordnik.com. [Kinabalu montane alpine meadows] Reference
Wild species that persist in the ecoregion's national parks include the gaur (Bos gaurus), sambar (Cervus unicolor), serow (Capricornis sumatrensis), golden cat (Felix temmincki), masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), marbled cat (Felis marmorata), leopard cat (Felis bengalensis), spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor), Himalayan black-bear (Selenarctos thibetanus), Himalayan sun-bear (Helarctos malayanus), binturong (Arctictis binturong), dhole (Cuon alpinus), and capped langur (Presbytis pileatus). From Wordnik.com. [Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests] Reference
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