NUS Module Blogs

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.

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, unsecured bin centres, slow removal of food waste at hawker centres - all of which have contributed to the management of crow populations as well.

See "Reducing the crow population" (NEA, 2004).

International News articles

• "Gun Club Hunts City Crows in Singapore -- By Official Request," by James Card. National Geographic News, 08 Jan 2007.
• "Singapore: Helping a city stay *** and span Cityscape: Singapore," by Seth Mydans. International Herald Tribune, 05 Nov 2006.
• "Singapore Journal; A Fastidious City-State Has an Answer for Crows," by Wayne Arnold. New York Times, 21 Sep 2000.
• "Singapore home to 100,000 crows." ABC Science Online, 13 Dec 2001.

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.

The New York Times story on parthenogensis in a hammerhead shark in Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska in 2001. This was based on this 2007 paper: Chapman, D. D., M. S. Shivji, E. Louis, J. Sommer, H. Fletcher, P. A. Prodöhl, 2007. Virgin birth in a hammerhead shark. Biology Letters, 3 (4): 425-427.

See also the 2002 National Geographic story on the report of parthenogenesis in a white spotted bamboo shark at Bellle Isle Aquarium, Detroit.