This little fellow posed on a tree for me this morning, which is kind of unusual – they’re very skittish. You may not see his spiky crest, but the elegant curve of his tail is evident. The “UMP” on the road marking behind him warns drivers of an upcoming Hump, as speed bumps are known […]
The pangolin is an ant-eating mammal with keratin scales all over its body – the only keratin-coated mammal there is. They are toothless nocturnal creatures that can curl themselves into tight balls. Sort of southeast Asia’s answer to the armadillo. I’ve seen pictures and sculptures of these creatures, but didn’t really believe they existed in […]
OK, the one good thing about the new fugly fence is that it provides a sense of scale. The gaps in between bars are about one inch wide and two inches tall, so figure out the size of this spider:
OK, it’s probably a moth. But it’s 3 and a half inches across, and was just parked outside our doorstep this morning. I saw another like it last year, but green with bright yellow stripes – they look like stunt kites. Let me know if you can identify it. I probably needed a tripod and […]
This morning I lucked out and saw wild pigs: a mother and adolescent! They were walking along the ugly new fence that now separates the NTU campus from the military training jungle. I think the fence is there to protect the Youth Olympic Games kids from rampaging Singapore servicemen. (Although I also saw about 50 […]
This guy was posing for us in Chinese Gardens a few weeks back. There were lots of them near and in the lake just at dusk. Major water-monitor time! Click on these pictures to enlarge this bad boy…..
I have occasionally bemoaned the fact that I am the housekeeper in a large apartment that has both white tile floors and geckos. Geckos are harmless, slightly squishy little reptiles that lay their eggs in unobtrusive corners and eat insects in the house. (Hooray! Despite our best efforts and the weekly thermal fogging, there are […]
I see from the GoStats information that someone was referred to my blog by typing in the question: “I found a snakeskin in my house; what is the astrological significance of this?” (Almost all other referrals were for “Singapore sex blog,” so the search for sex in Singapore evidently continues….) I’d say the most important […]
No picture this time, since I didn’t find a good one on the Web, and didn’t have my camera with me. But he was a lovely shiny black snake, sitting in elegant undulated curves across part of the sidewalk, head raised slightly above the ground while it watched me go by, white stripes on either […]
A wee warning: This is a post containing pictures of a largely decomposed bat I found on my morning walk. You may wish to skip it. On the other hand, it’s nearly Halloween, so a highly appropriate post for the season. And I found it interesting to look at, obviously. And no, it didn’t smell. […]