KY had passed this to me quite a while back but I had forgotten to share this to everyone till now. Click on the picture to assess the website where the PDF can be downloaded. (The link to the PDF seems to be broken when I am typing this entry. Hopefully it will be restored soon.)
The State of Observed Species (SOS) gave a short report on our current (correct as of year 2008) number of described species in the world.
And here is a summary of the various taxa at a glance.
NeI find the Newspaper SG which Ria used to dig out some past of Pulau Semakau and Pulau Sakeng very interesting. I decided to try to see if I can get some articles from our natural history and wala! Managed to find some articles on tigers in the past. Click on the picture to enlarge.
I used the keywords ‘Tiger’ and ‘Bukit Timah’ to search since searching ‘Tiger’ came out many entries from Malaysia rather than Singapore and searching ‘Tiger’ and ‘Singapore’ came out more soccer stuff and tiger beer than the animal itself. Bukit Timah is known to be a ‘Tiger Resort’ last time so this is the best bet for a successful search.
The last suspected tiger killed was in 1930 near Chao Chu Kang Village. But I found one dated 1935 whereby someone seemed to heard a tiger roar at Bukit Timah Hill. I guess that was never verified. Have a fun read!
