Editing Mount Kinabalu (section)

=== Fauna ===
[[File:Borneo Mount Kinabalu Moutain Squirrel Rat.jpg|thumb|right|A mountain squirrel, ''[[Sundasciurus tenuis]]'', from Mount Kinabalu]]
The variety of plant life is also habitat for a great variety of birds and mammals.<ref>Camacho-Sanchez M, Hawkins MTR, Tuh Yit Yu F, Maldonado JE, Leonard JA. 2019. Endemism and diversity of small mammals along two neighboring Bornean mountains. PeerJ 7:e7858 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7858 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202114421/https://peerj.com/articles/7858/ |date=2 December 2021 }}</ref> There are some 326 species of birds in Kinabalu Park, including the spectacular [[rhinoceros hornbill]], [[mountain serpent-eagle]], [[Dulit frogmouth]], [[eyebrowed jungle flycatcher]], and [[bare-headed laughingthrush]]. Twenty-four birds are mainly found on the mountain. The mountain is home to some 100 mammalian species mostly living high in the trees, including one of the great apes, the [[Bornean orangutan]] (though sightings of these are uncommon; estimates of its numbers in the park range from 25 to 120).<ref name=P&L /> Other mammals include three kinds of deer, the [[Malayan weasel]] (''Mustela nudipes''), [[Oriental small-clawed otter]] (''Aonyx cinerea''), and [[leopard cat]] (''Prionailurus bengalensis''). Endemic mammals include the [[black shrew]] (''Suncus ater''). However, others of its endemics, such as the [[Bornean ferret-badger]] (''Melogale everetti'') and ''[[Rattus baluensis]]'', have also recently been recorded in the nearby [[Mount Tambuyukon]].<ref name="doi.org"/>

Endemic annelids number less than a dozen known species but include the [[Kinabalu giant red leech]] that preys on various earthworms, including the [[Kinabalu giant earthworm]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Blakemore, R.J. |author2=C. Csuzdi |author3=M.T. Ito |author4=N. Kaneko |author5=T. Kawaguchi |author6=M. Schilthuizen |year=2007 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01613p044f.pdf |title=Taxonomic status and ecology of Oriental ''Pheretima darnleiensis'' (Fletcher, 1886) and other earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from Mt Kinabalu, Borneo |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1613 |issue=1 |pages=23–44 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1613.1.2 |access-date=31 December 2007 |archive-date=10 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410002726/http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01613p044f.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In the summit zone, at least 26 endemic species of [[land snail]] exist.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Liew |first1=T.S. |last2=Schilthuizen |first2=M. |year=2010 |title=The determinants of land snail diversity along a tropical altitudinal gradient: insularity, geometry, and niches |journal=Journal of Biogeography |volume=37 |issue=6 |pages=1071–1078 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02243.x|s2cid=83558264 }}</ref> In 2012, a major scientific expedition, jointly organised by the Malaysian [[Sabah Parks]] and the Dutch [[Naturalis Biodiversity Center]], performed DNA analysis of several dozen endemic flora, fauna, and fungi, to understand the evolutionary origin of the unique [[biodiversity]] of Kinabalu.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/press/pressreleases/expedition-investigates-origin-unique-species-borneo/ |title=Expedition investigates origin of unique species on Borneo |work=Press release |publisher=Naturalis Biodiversity Center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723132432/http://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/press/pressreleases/expedition-investigates-origin-unique-species-borneo/ |archive-date=23 July 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>