karasu said:
we have lots of nasty spiders, frogs, and snakes here in brisbane...
My guess the 'frogs' that you mention are actually cane toads, right? I heard it's a menace in Australia, endangering the native wildlife there. Cane toads have a toxin gland at its back that can cause death to animals that ate the toads.
In Kuala Lumpur, the 'wildlife' you can see is stray cats (cats outnumbering dogs here), stray dogs (occasionally), crows (lots of em) talapias, janitor fish and tortoises (you can see tortoises at recreational parks).
At my hometown, there's the usual animals, cats, dogs, squirrel, chicken, swallows, cows, goats, lizards etc.
Sometimes, at the oil palm plantation I occassionally encounter cobras (scary!) and owls. But I think it's normal coz they hunt their natural prey, rats and there's a lot of rats in oil palm plantation.
If I'm lucky, i'll get to see storks, resting on top of a tree or hornbills in front of my house and since my house is in front of a river I'm able to see the storks foraging for food. It's a rare sight coz these birds as far as I know are migratory birds. Sometimes I also encounter jungle fowls which are quite abundant here.
At my grandma's house, I'll be able to see a group of monkeys. sometimes they're too close to the house, we have to scare them away.
Speaking of road kill, I did encounter the most bizzare carcass of my life. A dead young leopard with injuries at its head. I wish I could take it and preserve it coz it's rare and still in good condition but at that time I was afraid that it's spirit would possess me and I just left it there. That was 10 years ago. I also saw with my own eyes an injured cobra getting hit by a pickup truck while its body was in attacking position.
Another encounter was about 14 years ago when me and my friends were walking back from school when we discovered a python in curling position beside the road. At that time I don't know whether it's a road kill or not coz it doesn't have injuries and it's position is like it's relaxing or something and it's eyes seem to be closed. We tried to poke it's head but after there's no reaction we headed back to our homes.