Fastest Animals on the Travel Guide Malaysia

Dolphin
Dolphin: "Dolphin" is an old Greek word for the animal itself.
Location: In all temperate seas.
Habitat: Aquatic. Coastal waters, but also on the open sea.
Description: The basic colour of the bottle-nosed dolphin is a silvery gray. In the southern parts of its range the colour tends to be darker. There are 23 to 25 teeth on each side of each jaw. Bottle noses grow to about 12 feet in length, and average about 500 lbs - but may reach over 1400 lbs.
Behaviour: These dolphins live in pods usually numbering about a dozen individuals.  They enjoy approaching ships and following them at the same speed for some time. They also like to play, jumping out of the water and splashing. This dolphin can swim at a speed of at least 14 knots (a knot is slightly more than one mile-per-hour) and dive for more than seven minutes. They feed on all types of fish.
Reproduction: Gestation lasts about 12 months, with the delivery of a single calf about 3.5 feet long. It nurses for over a year.

Banded linsang
Linsang: "Linsang" is a Malay word for the animal.
Location: Southeast Asia.
Habitat: Arboreal. Tropical forest.
Description: This animal is slender and elegant, with a long, narrow head, tapering snout, and short coat with the texture of velvet. The overall colour is pale, but there are bands of dark spots along the back. The head and body are about 15 inches long. The weight is about one and a half pounds.
Behaviour: This is a solitary, basically nocturnal species, which lives almost exclusively in trees, moving with great agility. It can move swiftly on the ground and is an efficient predator of small vertebrates and insects. Its diet includes eggs, which are crushed between the front paws.
Reproduction: It can reproduce twice a year, in February and August. The female gives birth to two or three young in a burrow in the ground or in a hollow tree.

Long-tailed Macaque
Location: Southern Indochina, Burma, Indonesia and Malaysia. 
Habitat:  Long-tailed macaques are found in primary, secondary, coastal, mangrove, swamp, and riverine forests. Because the monkeys are tolerant of humans, they may be found near villages.
Description: These monkeys sport gray to reddish brown body hair, which is lighter on their undersides. The hair on the crown of the head grows into a pointed crest. Male long-tailed macaques have whiskers and moustaches; females have beards. They grow to between 16 and 25 inches tall.  Males weigh approximately 10 to 18 pounds and females 5 to 12 pounds.
Behaviour: Long-tailed macaques live in groups of 10 to 48 individuals. In these groups, there are generally 2.5 females for each male.
Reproduction: Females reach sexual maturity at 4 to 4.5 years, males at 4 years. Females give birth approximately every 13 months, having a gestation period of between 5 and 6 months. Their average lifespan is 37.1 years.

Black giant squirrel
Squirrel: "Squirrel" comes from the Middle English word "squyrel," which came from the Greek "skiouros" for the animal.
Location: Southern Asia.
Habitat: Terrestrial. Tropical and temperate forests.
Description: The black giant has distinctive colouring: the coat on the underside is pale yellow, and the back is black. The ears are short and round. The feet are quite broad and have strong claws. This squirrel can reach a foot and a half in length, with another foot for the tail, and it can weigh up to four and a half pounds.
Behaviour: This animal usually lives alone, but occasionally in a pair. It is arboreal and feeds on fruit, nuts, bark, insects, and birds eggs. It frequently makes forays into coffee, banana, and fig plantations. It rarely descends to the ground.
Reproduction: Gestation lasts about one month, and the female gives birth to only one or two young.

Plantain Squirrel
Description: These agile squirrels are a beautiful greyish brown, with a chestnut belly and a black-and-white line between the two.
Behaviour: Plantain Squirrels eat mainly fruits and nuts but also snack on insects and other titbits that they come across including birds eggs. Plantain Squirrels forage mostly in trees and undergrowth and rarely come to the ground. They are active during the day, more so in the morning and evening. They rest in hollow trees and some construct a nest out of leaves and twigs, in tree branches or large bushes.
Habitat: Plantain Squirrels disperse plants by eating their fruits. But they are considered a pest by fruit farmers and coconut plantation owners.
Status and threats: Plantain Squirrels are fairly common because they have adapted to humans. They are often found in gardens, parks and agricultural areas.