Sundasciurus jentinki
Silhouette: Joseph Smit · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Jentink's squirrel (Sundasciurus jentinki) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is named in honor of the Dutch zoologist Fredericus Anna Jentink. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Wikipedia →
Alarm call1:00
Malaysia · 2023
© Daan Drukker · XC959727 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Recording0:08
Malaysia · 2018
© Erik van Dijk · Observation.org, Nature data from around the World · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Jentink's Squirrel sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 85 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 3rd most-seen of the 18 mammals we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and October
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Jentink's Squirrel in Kinabalu Park on a given day, against about 20% in April, the lowest month.
Between midnight and 3 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jentink's Squirrel sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Kinabalu Park, in our data
Kinabalu Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Jentink's Squirrel sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jentink's Squirrel is recorded against all the mammals logged in Kinabalu Park (85 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
