NUS Module Blogs

April 2008 - Posts

• Stray Cat Sterilisation Project At Bukit Merah View (2000)

  Lou, E. H., 2000. Stray cat sterilisation project at Bukit Merah View. Singapore Veterinary Journal Online, 24. Note the charts legends 1 and 2 are mixed up. Singapore Veterinary Journal Online, 24."/> Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:38 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: cats, conflict, lecture13, singapore

• A review of feral cat control

  Robertson, S. A., in press. A review of feral cat control. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. doi:10.1016/j.jfms.2007.08.003 Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:30 AM by N. Sivasothi | 1 Comments Filed under: cats, conflict, lecture13

• Culling crows in Singapore - just part of the big picture

  International news articles have been fascinated with the culling by shooting strategy. However, this is only one aspect of the national strategy to bring crow populations under control. Another key element is the denial of food sources from littering, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:18 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments

• Carl Zimmer on sexual cannibalism (NYT, 2006)

  " This Can’t Be Love ," by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, 05 Sep 2006. Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:01 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: lecture12, sexual cannibalism

• Recent examples of parthenogenesis in vertebrates - shark and komodo!

  The Daily Telegraph story on the Komodo dragon surprise of parthenogenesis in 2006 at Chester Zoo. Source article: Watts, P. C., K. R. Buley, S. Sanderson, W. Boardman, C. Ciofi & R. Gibson, 2006. Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons. Nature, 444: 1021-1022 Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 5:49 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: shark, lecture12, parthenogenesis, komodo

• Cicadas in Singapore

  There are a couple of posts in Habitatnews about cicada encounters - you'll recognise the photos from the lecture! Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:29 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: lecture11, singapore, cicadas

• Giant Cicada emergence in the US

  Lovely footage from Life in the Undergrowth with BBC/David Attenborough that captures the once-in-17 year emergence of cicadas and their amazing calls. Brood XIV is coming! - to mid-west USA in Apr-May 2008. See Cicada Mania for lovely photos, the emergence Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:20 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: lecture11

• Temporary grasslands of Singapore - A photo gallery by Paul Huang

  I showed you just these few some examples of birds that colonised Punggol grasslands. Well, now you can view the complete and breath-taking gallery of Paul Huang's "Temporary grasslands of Singapore" at naturestops.com Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:39 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: lecture11, singapore, birds, habitat

• Farmers contribute to lapwing conservation

  In the late 90's, it was reported that the lapwing, a formerly common bird across most of the United Kingdom had suffered severe in numbers, In a 1987 survey, the breeding population was estimated at 200-250,000 pairs. By 1998, surveys estimated the population Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:32 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: lecture11, habitat, lapwing

• Social odour in birds - Crested Auklets

  "Tangerine Ruff ’n’ Sniff: new clue to bird social behaviour." The Royal Society Science News/Press release, 14 May 2003 "Although odours are a common form of communication in every other vertebrate animal, the possible use of scent to convey social information Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:28 AM by N. Sivasothi | 1 Comments Filed under: lecture11

• Does rank influence the health of an animal?

  Sapolsky, R. M., 2005. The influence of social hierarchy on primate health. Science , 308 (5722): 648 - 652. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:55 AM by N. Sivasothi | 1 Comments Filed under: lecture11, stress, hierarchies

• Speed by David Orr

  Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:10 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: speed