Today, we went to the Raffles Biodiversity Museum at NUS Science faculty. It took us some time to get there and I felt very sleepy along the way, after a hearty lunch at Swensens.
We intended to take the shuttle bus but by the time we reached BV, I was dehydrated and could not make it to the other side of the road in the scorching sunlight, so we took a taxi down to lower Kent Ridge.
The museum has a spectrum of flora and fauna preserved artifacts that used to be found in Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia. Once alive mammals stood on all fours looking menacing into the camera in their preserved state.
Many specimens tugged at my heartstrings. First, to be frozen in their dazzling state even in death captured my sympathy. Secondly, the fact that many can no longer be found in our river estuararies, much of which has been canalised or dammed up and even non-existent specimens at our few existing mangroves and catchment areas.
We learnt a bit about the animals but there was not much information apart from their name tablets. Ah, these biologists, they really should write more!
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