While large vertebrate mammals, like deer
or bear, might be able to make that overland journey to keep up with northward - shifting temperatures, smaller
animals and
plants just don't move that fast, Anderson said.
At least twenty - five
plants and
animals observed during the survey are new records for Penang
or peninsular Malaysia, including the Sunda colugo
or flying lemur, the red giant flying squirrel, the long - tailed giant rat, the Indomalayan niviventer, the lesser mouse deer, and species of ground squirrels, birds, bacteria, bats, ants, orchids, flies, frogs, mosquitoes, and microscopic water
bears.