Millipedes mating at Mulu National Park at night #SHORTS

Millipedes mating at Mulu National Park at night with natural sound of the rainforest #SHORTS

About the mating and reproduction of millipedes:

In all except the bristle millipedes, copulation occurs with the two individuals facing one another. Copulation may be preceded by male behaviors such as tapping with antennae, running along the back of the female, offering edible glandular secretions, or in the case of some pill-millipedes, stridulation or "chirping". During copulation in most millipedes, the male positions his seventh segment in front of the female's third segment, and may insert his gonopods to extrude the vulvae before bending his body to deposit sperm onto his gonopods and reinserting the "charged" gonopods into the female. Females lay from 10 to 300 eggs, depending on the species. Many species deposit the eggs on moist soil or organic detritus, but some construct nests lined with dried faeces, and may protect the eggs within silk cocoons. In most species, the female abandons the eggs after they are laid, but some species in the orders Platydesmida and Stemmiulida provide parental care for eggs and young. The young hatch after a few weeks, and typically have only three pairs of legs, followed by up to four legless segments. As they grow, they continually moult, adding further segments and legs as they do so. Millipedes may live from one to ten years, depending on species.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede#Reproduction_and_growth

About Gunung Mulu National Park:

The Gunung Mulu National Park is a national park in Miri Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that encompasses caves and karst formations in a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The park is famous for its caves and the expeditions that have been mounted to explore them, most notably the Royal Geographical Society Expedition of 1977–1978.

The national park is named after Mount Mulu, the second highest mountain in Sarawak.
Gunung Mulu National Park is the most studied tropical karst area in the world. It has 295 km of explored caves which houses millions of bats and swiftlets. The western side of the park are lowland area and the eastern side are the mountain ranges consists of limestone and sandstone. The landforms in the park consists of rugged summits, steep ridges and escarpments, sheer cliffs, gorges, karst towers, caves and terraces, hot springs, floodplains and waterfalls.

The park is dominated by three mountains: Mount Mulu (2,376 m / 7,795 ft), Mount Api and Mount Benarat. Mount Mulu is a sandstone mountain; meanwhile, Mount Api and Mount Benarat are limestone mountains. The summit of Mount Mulu is covered by moss forests, while the limestone pinnacles are found on the upper part of the Mount Api.

The national park has three notable caves: Sarawak Chamber, one of the world's largest underground chambers, Deer Cave, the largest cave passage in the world, and Clearwater Cave, the longest cave system in Southeast Asia. The Sarawak Chamber is 600 m / 2,000 ft long, 415 m / 1,362 ft wide and at least 80 m / 260 ft high. Meanwhile, the Deer Cave is at 120 m / 390 ft to 150 m / 490 ft in diameter. Clearwater Cave has 227.2 km / 745,000 ft of explored passages.

The climate at Mulu national park are affected by northeast monsoon and southwest monsoon. The amount of rainfall is high, which ranges from 4,000 millimetres (160 in) to 5,000 millimetres (200 in). The temperature ranges from 14 °C (57 °F) to 26 °C (79 °F).

There are 20,000 species of invertebrates, 81 species of mammals, 270 species of birds, 55 species of reptiles, 76 species of amphibians and 48 species of fish identified in the park area.
8 species of hornbill have been spotted in Mulu including the rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), the Wrinkled hornbill (Aceros corrugatus) and the helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil).
28 species of bats have been recorded in the park. Deer Cave is home to approximately three million of Wrinkle-lipped bats (Chaerephon plicatus). There are 25 species of snakes including: Reticulated python, Calamaria snakes, and striped coral snake (Calliophis intestinalis). A number of amphibians are only known from the Gunung Mulu National Park, including squat frog Calluella flava and stream toad Ansonia torrentis.

Gunung Mulu National Park contains a large number of plant species. The park has 17 vegetation zones, with 3,500 species of vascular plants and 1,500 species of flowering plants. There are 109 species in 20 genera of palms, over 1,700 mosses and liverworts, 8,000 species of fungi, and 442 species of spore-producing pteridophytes are recorded.

Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Mulu_National_Park
The official park website: https://mulupark.com/
The UNESCO website: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1013/
The Sarawak forestry website: https://sarawakforestry.com/parks-and-reserves/mulu-national-park/