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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Bulletin of the Raffles Museum
Author: Of Whales and Dinosaurs
Author: Kevin Y.L. TanPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971698552
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Singapore's collection of Southeast Asian animals–one of the world's largest–dates back to the old Raffles Museum, officially established in 1878.With the opening of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in 2015, the original Raffles Museum has "reincarnated" and the loop on its remarkable 127-year history has closed. Beneath the sleek exterior of today's modern museum building lies a saga of titanic struggles and changes. That the collections survived at all–through the multiple challenges of the nineteenth century, the disruption of World War Two, and its potential disintegration in the face of Singapore's modernization–is nothing short of miraculous. This book is not only an institutional history of the museum but also tells the story of frustrations, commitment and courage of the numerous individuals who battled officialdom, innovated endlessly and overcame the odds to protect Singapore's natural history heritage. The book features 108 historical photographs and natural history illustrations printed in full colour throughout.
The Cuckoos
Author: Robert B. PaynePublisher: Bird Families of the World
ISBN: 0198502133
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Annual Report
Author: SingaporeJournal of the Federated Malay States Museums
Author: A Bat's End
Author: John WoinarskiPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486308651
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up a maze of netting to try to catch it. It is a forlorn and futile exercise – even if captured, there is little future in just one bat. But the bat evades the trap easily, and continues foraging. It is not recorded again that night, and not at all the next night. The bat is never again recorded. The scientists search all nearby areas over the following nights. It has gone. There are no more bats. Its corpse is not, will never be, found. It is the silent, unobtrusive death of the last individual. It is extinction. This book is about that bat, about those scientists, about that island. But mostly it is an attempt to understand that extinction; an unusual extinction, because it was predicted, witnessed and its timing is precise. A Bat's End is a compelling forensic examination of the circumstances and players surrounding the extinction of the Christmas Island pipistrelle. A must-read for environmental scientists, policy-makers, and organisations and individuals with an interest in conservation.
Singapore Biodiversity
Author: Peter K. L. NgPublisher: Editions Didier Millet
ISBN: 9814260088
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A magnificently illustrated and superbly written guide to the unique and simply astounding biodiversity of Singapore.
Bulletin of the New England Museum of Natural History
Author: Boston Museum of SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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