IMG_3748. Two banded file snakes were fucking on the flat off the northern rim of Pulau Semakau, where the perimeter bund of a bulging ...
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prowl the edge of the seagrass meadow in rude droves and unrestrained colours. Some are hunched over pieces of rubble, with their extruded innards making short work of encrusted organisms. Others sprawl on the grass, exchanging invisible messages with their mates or awaiting the signa...
The cute, the cat and the gory The cats of the eastern shores were out and about last Saturday before the boardwalk. At the village on Ubin, one bike shop is home to a couple of pussies who usually lurk by the narrow doorway with its raised floorplank. Only one was visible though, sno...
Squirrels don't usually sit and stare, but when they do, few casual visitors to local parks and reserves suffer from the intrusion of arboreal mammals into their line of foresight or endure the disruption of small, warm bodies to their constitutional subroutines. But there was no esca...
The island's former name, which invited confusion with namesakes further to the southwest , is admirably haunting, however. One account of its origin tells of an encounter between a domiciled fisherman and a decapod he had snared, a brachyuran of colossal proportions with whom he stru...
'Tis the season to brave the woods and flee the light, to walk past snaking root and under writhing branch, eyes astray and attuned, as the day fades and muscles dilate, to the glow of fruiting bodies that feast on the fibres of fallen wood and release, into the drift of nocturnal upw...
Other denizens of this artificial coastline probably crept in without compulsion, sensing in their chemoreceptors the stirrings of young colonies or seeking the protection of sheltered waters. There are few chances such as this to observe the creatures of deeper slopes at close quarte...
Orange specimens pop up not infrequently, suggesting that this morph enjoys no great selective disadvantage compared to its mottled counterparts on a terrain riddled with gaudy encrustations. On the lower reaches of the rocks, a zone that seldom, if ever, suffers prolonged exposure, g...
The morbid epithet of this gastropod, which is a limpet only in sensu lato, may have arose from the discovery of fossil remains prior to encounters with extant specimens. Locally, the snails once thrived on small rocks "along the low water mark" of an artificial bay fed by the Singapo...
