The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Mud Facials & Oil Baths For The Skippers

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Pasir Ris Park
East, Singapore
March 2013

Merlion Wayfarer was at the mangroves at Pasir Ris Park one afternoon. Being mid-tide, this was the trip when she saw the most number of mudskippers!
  • Skippers swimming to stay slim...

  • Skippers having a mud facial...

  • Skippers hiding in the shade for fear that they will grow more spots...

  • Skippers paddling to learn how to swim like a fish...

   
  • Skippers having an oil bath...

    
  • Skippers learning how to breathe underwater...

    

Arachnida (Spiders)

 
Jumpers are always very curious little ones. Here is a Ligurra Latidens (Mangrove Jumper) Female staring right into the lens...


See how hard the armour protecting her head is...

She can be quite aggressive when she sees a prey that she sees something she doesn't quite like...


The Rest


There was a lot of water today. Due to the inflow, new streams are etched into the mud. This mini-waterfall, nearly one metre in height was created due to a sinking in of a mudflat. The height of the water created a significant amount of foam in the pool below.


Quite a few kingfishers can be heard near the entrance closer to the carpark. Here's a Todiramphus Chloris (Collared Kingfisher) that stands out easily:

A katydid, an elegant grasshopper and a moult...


A couple of mating houseflies and a Agrionoptera Insignis (Grenadier) dragon...


A collection of bugs...
[Any help to ID will be much appreciated!]



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