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Author: Budak
Title:  Photographs Taken at the Raffles Museum of Diversity, Singapore.
Summary: A great collection of photographs of rare or extinct creatures that are on display at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity in Singapore.
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Date first published: December 2003
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Photographs Taken at the
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity, Singapore.

by Budak, of Singapore
Originally published on www.aquaticquotient.com   Reproduced here by permission.  
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Complementary to Marcus Ng's article:
We Are Not Alone! A Rumination on Biodiversity and the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity
here are some representative photographs of the Museum's exhibits.

CLICK ON PHOTOS FOR ENLARGEMENTS. THEN GO "BACK."

t-Aquarium.jpg (24661 bytes)   Aquarium featuring native freshwater fishes - the colourful clown barb, however, is already extinct in the wild.

t-Peat swamp.jpg (22687 bytes)   Peat swamp species are one of the Museum's research programmes.

t-Coelacanth.jpg (13056 bytes)   Model of Coelacanth, a living fossil found in the Comoros and Indonesian waters.

t-Deep sea treasures.jpg (14892 bytes)   Deep sea treasures - specimens of fishes from oceanic trenches in the Pacific.

t-Marine trench.jpg (13549 bytes)   More marine trench life, including a cookie-cutter shark (top fish).

t-Feather Moss.jpg (15616 bytes)   Feather moss. Bryophyte research is one of the Museum's fortes.

t-Forest pharmacopoeia.jpg (13573 bytes)   Forest pharmacopoeia - flying lizards and skeletal frogs.

t-Scorpion.jpg (12297 bytes)   "This must be good for you somehow."

t-Robber crab.jpg (18956 bytes)   Robber crab, a shell-less hermit crab that climbs coconut trees to feed on the fruit.

t-Spider crab.jpg (19451 bytes)   Giant spider crab with 5 ft. wide leg span.

t-Freshwater turtle.jpg (12876 bytes)  Southeast Asian freshwater turtles.

t-boars.jpg (14583 bytes)   "I think we are being followed!"

t-Sumatran rhino.jpg (18029 bytes)   Head of a Sumatran rhino.

t-dog.jpg (10274 bytes)   Red dhole - a rare Indo-Malaysian wild dog species.

t-Singapore cat.jpg (22859 bytes)   Singapore's most beautiful native cat. Now extinct.

t-Clouded Leopard.jpg (24146 bytes)   The cat with the longest fangs - the clouded leopard.

t-Leopard cat.jpg (19151 bytes)   Leopard cat from Mandai.

t-Gibbons.jpg (20480 bytes)   Gibbons from S.E. Asia.

t-Red Leaf Monkey.jpg (12550 bytes)   Red Leaf Monkey. One of many rare animals on display.