Scientific play is a serious business

Iva Njunjić’s dream to explore caves and work on cave beetles took her far from her home country of Serbia — to the beautiful island of Borneo.

Bod Tai cave on Borneo-smaller

This photo was taken during field work in Sabah, Malaysia where Prof. Menno Schilthuizen, his PhD student Mohd Zacaery bin Khalik and I went to explore caves and hunt for new species of cave invertebrates. We spent many days around a small village on the Kinabatangan River, trying to locate caves in numerous limestone hills and gather information about the organisms that live there. Continue reading