Trip to the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research: Gallery of taxidermised specimens pt II

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I have the kind of feeling that I’m going to grow old and die before I can upload all the photos. Never mind, I’m working on it… here are a few more.

Adult Sun Bear. See its teeth! They’re real!

A Serow (wild goat)

Frigatebirds. They inflate those red things under their beaks as a courtship display.

Pangolin. Some people eat them.

A menagerie of Monkeys. Close ups: Siamang, Proboscis Monkey and Agile Gibbon (the yellow one at the front). One of them has a bald spot on its armpit.
One of my relatives cooked and ate a monkey before. She said it was like a baby O_o
We’ve even given one of the Siamangs (the small one) a nickname. It’s called ‘shuai ge’ or ‘handsome guy’ in Chinese cause it has a handsome face. Don’t ask me how we got to that conclusion.

Head of a Sumatran Rhinoceros.

Malayan Tapir. The yellow sign says: These animals have been treated with POISONOUS chemicals. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH

A little Clouded Leopard hiding among all the Monkeys.

Greater Mousedeer. While the Lesser Mousedeer can still be found in Singapore, the Greater Mousedeer is extinct here.

A very wide mouthed Oriental Small-clawed Otter. These can still be found in Pulau Tekong, Pulau Ubin and Sungei Buloh. Otters in Singapore! This is making me want to head to Sungei Buloh now.
It’s quite funny, cause I used to read these story books that mentioned otters when I was achild and I used to think that you could only find them in western countries. I only realise now that they’ve been on the same island as us all along… -_-

Next up: Civet Cats, a Cobra and a dangerous sounding Stink Badger

Trip to the Raffles Museum of biodiversity research: Gallery of taxidermised specimens pt I

Previous: Smugglers’ Loot and Strange Edible Stuff

Ok, these are kinda rushed cause I need to hand the computer over to my sister to do her projects.

I had a conversation over msn with Gwen where I told her I wanted to go (or rather I was trying to get her to go with me) see wild animals (in one of the nature reserves), and she was like “Wild animals? You mean like Panthers, Tigers, etc.?” Here are your wild animals, Gwen, a Leopard and a rather anorexic Tiger. There used to be Tigers in Singapore, but they’re extinct here now. Rarely, reports of some still surface, but mostly on the offshore islands.

Leathery Turtle.

The famous Banded Leaf Monkey. For some reason, my sister calls it the ’scary monkey’. If I remember correctly, some time ago it was mentioned in the news that this one was being attacked by dogs and when they retrieved it, it was already dead. But don’t bet your ass on it cause I have a pretty bad memory.
(The newspaper article can be found here. It turns out that I remembered correctly, yay!)

Big Wild Pig and baby Wild Pig.

Elephant skull and leg bones.

Next up: Gallery of taxidermised specimens Part II