Local Fauna

Now, understand that we are in a big city - Jakarta is home to nearly 8.5 million people and is the 12th largest city in the world.  But with a park immediately across the street, and knowing how much bio-diversity lurks beyond the concrete jungle in the actual jungle, I had been hoping to see a few critters.

Up until tonight, the only animals I have seen have been cats, house sparrows and a dove.  Sparrows are everywhere.  Anywhere the British have been, you will find sparrows hundreds of years after the Brits have been booted out.  But tonight I spotted a bat, a local toad (pictured below) and a lizard of some sort.
This toad made my night.

There are many stray cats.  I was saddened today to see what appeared to be a dead kitten in the remains of a trash fire.

 

It turned out the kitty was alive, though clearly down on its luck.

I've decided the kitten bears a striking resemblance to Scut Farkas.

You'll be glad to know that the kitten's squalid existence is not entirely grim.  He is camped out right across from a security checkpoint, and it looks like the guards have been feeding it.  But he still looks like Scut Farkas.

"Cry for me, crybaby!" taunted the Farkas cat.