Sunda Colugo Sleeping Site Selection and Camouflage Data from Langkawi Island

Data collected between November 2019 and January 2020 at the Andaman Resort on Langkawi Island, Malaysia, to investigate daytime sleeping site selection, co-roosting behavior, and visual camouflage of wild Sunda colugos. The dataset includes structural tree measurements, individual colugo sightings, and camouflage analysis results. It was authored by Priscillia Miard and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling sleeping site selection based on structural tree traits like canopy cover and DBH.
• Analyzing social co-roosting associations using dyadic data from identified individuals.
• Quantifying visual camouflage effectiveness via the Colour Overlapping Index (COI).
• Investigating individual site fidelity using mixed models on repeated sightings.

Strengths

• Includes data for 40 sleeping trees and 152 non-sleeping trees for comparative analysis.
• Contains 204 colugo sightings with 45 positively identified individuals (C1–C45).
• Camouflage is quantified using 66 independent photographic samples for the Colour Overlapping Index.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is limited to a single location and a three-month period, which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Field observations and structural measurements recorded during daytime resting periods, with individual identification via standardized photography.

Time Range

November 2019 to January 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 05:25:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Andaman Resort on Langkawi Island, Malaysia