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Unknown cave mass

Description:

A mass of brown round round objects. There are thousands of these "balls" in this "collection". These mass of round objects are vertically stuck high up the cave wall so I have to zoom my camera to take these pictures. I am not sure what these are, possibly cocoons, eggs or somethings else. The patch is about 1 to 2 meters wide with each "ball" about 5mm to 1cm in diameter.

Habitat:

Attached vertically on the wall of a cave in Agop Batu Tulug Archaeological Museum, located beside the highway between Sandakan and Lahad Datu, Sabah.

Notes:

Map accuracy : 1km diameter. I hope somebody can shed some lights on these unusual objects.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Ball slime mold
Leocarpus fragilis Leocarpus fragilis - Wikimedia Commons


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3 Comments

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 10 years ago

Hi Mark, this is the cave, the chamber is quite small and bright. http://www.wongfookyee.com/HTML/Shirley/...
The patch is about 1 to 2 meters wide with each ball about 5mm to 1cm in diameter and they are seem to be made up of mud. Possibly wasp cocoons ?

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Could bats have disgorged this?

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

There's my vote Chun. How far into the caves? What size is the patch overall? I am always radiant and imaginative. Now let's ID the cave cricket eating it. 8-)

ChunXingWong
Spotted by
ChunXingWong

Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia

Spotted on Jun 6, 2010
Submitted on May 16, 2013

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