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April 2007 - Posts

• Elephants in Singapore!

  Elephants came from Johor to Singapore on two occasions, swimming across the eastern straits of Johor to: Pulau Ubin in March 1991 and Pulau Tekong in May 1990. See Pulau Ubin Stories. Read More... Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 5:44 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: conflict

• Cats takes a regular bus ride (UK)

  A white cat nicknamed Macavity (after a T. S. Eliott poem ) after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week. The cat "gets on the bus in front of a row of 1950s semi-detached houses and jumps off at a row of shops down the road which include Read More... Posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 7:41 AM by N. Sivasothi | 2 Comments

• The territorial sound of a Magellanic Woodpecker

  You may have heard that BBC will be providing videos on Youtube. Well in one such clip added by BBC Worldwide (Feb 2007) - Here David Attenborough imitates the double-tap sound of a Magellanic Woodpecker ( Campephilus magellanicus ) in the Patagonian Read More... Posted Friday, April 06, 2007 8:25 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: sound

• BBC's Planet Earth on Arts Central, every Wed 10pm from today

  Mediacorp's Arts Central will be screening BBC's Planet Earth every Wednesday in their Documentray @10 time slot, beginning today, Wed 04 Apr 2007 . The clip on intergroup conflict in chimpanzees was from the episode "Jungles." I'll blog about that in Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:55 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: tv

• "I'm obviously not a cat person"

  Kathleen Cochrane, a field reporter with American TV station Fox8, was reporting on an animal abuse story live from a shelter. She is seen holding an obviously digrunted cat, but unused to cats or focused on reporting, ignores Becky the cat's signalling Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 8:38 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: communication, cats