Thursday, May 21, 2009 • 7:49 AM
♥ Seashore part 1
Well, now is time for the seashore.
When we reach there,it was low tide.
Somehow its the first time for me (xi tong) to see a low tide.
Well, i am not really sure of the others.
This is the first animal we say when we entered - horse.
The view.
This is where many many small creature living on the seashore.
We can't usually see this during a high tide, as it covers it.
Every step we take is killing life!
So we were extra careful.
We had a wonderful time exploring it!
This is a dead crab.
Worms.
Hermit crabs.
We are very fortunate as we were able to see hermit crabs crawling out.
Hermit crabs are shy creatures.
We see lots of hermit crabs.
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Next,
is our C.I.P again.
This time round there is a mini-competition.
Hence we were competing whose rubbish is the heaviest.
These are some of the litters we found.
Imagine if there were so much litter yet there isn't anyone helps to pick up,
what will happen to all these poor creatures?
They might thought all these rubbish as food.
So if everyone in the world, at least picks up one piece a litter a day,
wouldn't it be cleaner?
Everybody has a part to do so, its not yours or my responsibility.
Its everyone, rubbish are causes by us- human beings.
So we need to take responsibilty.
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• 6:36 AM
♥ Mangrove part 2
The monitor lizard
They eat anything that they can swallow. From tiny insects, to crabs, molluscs, snakes, eggs (of birds and crocodiles), fish including eels up to 1m long. They also eat birds, rodents, small mouse deer, even other monitor lizards. They are particularly fond of carrion. They even eat rubbish, human faeces, and even dead bodies. They eat prey almost as big as themselves: one 1.2m long ate a snake 1.3m long.
Can you spot the mud skipper?
Its camouflaging well isn't it?
The mud skipper can live on both land and in water.
Unlike most fish in such habitats, which survive the retreat of the tide by hiding under wet or in tidal pools.Mud skippers are quite active when out of water, feeding and interacting with one another, for example to defend their
This is a bee hive.
Jordon actually spotted it first.
This is the first time we saw a bee hive.
Sean is holding a pong pong.
Pong pong reproduces very fast and is very adaptable to its enviornmeny.
Once the pong pong fruit is ripe and drops onto the ground,
it begans to grow.
Our C.I.P is to remove pong pong fruits which are on the ground.
We want the mangrove to have more mangrove plants instead of growing pong pong.
We really had fun while picking up pong pong.
Even though we had to get down to pick it up, and its quite muddy at some area,
but we did really enjoy it!
Its quite fun though.
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Monday, May 18, 2009 • 10:52 PM
♥ Mangrove part 1
You may click on the pictures to have a bigger and larger view :D
These pictures shows the lobster mounts.
This is the first thing we saw when we entered the mangrove.
The lobster mounts are meant for the vinegar crabs to live in.
It protects the vinegar crabs from their predators such as
monitor lizards.
These are some pictures of the vinegar crab.
Vinegar crabs are known as the tree-climbing crab
and they only climb trees whenever the tide is coming.
They are primarily leaf-eaters and are also known as pests
of mangrove plantations because of their habit of attacking
propagules. They will also scavenge meat like many other crabs.
The Teochew are known to pickle this crab in black sauce with
vinegar, and take it with porridge. On the other hand, Thais
like it salted, with the roe or simply fried whole.
source:http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/2049.htm
These are the sea holly.
It is a specialized kind of plant as it is very
adaptable and it has jagged and smooth leaves.
The jagged leaves represents the sufficient amount
of sunlight it gets. The smooth leaves represents
the lesser amount of sunlight it gets.
Southeast Asia
Locally, sea holly are found in various northern sites
as well as the dyke of the Western Catchment Area.
This plant is erect and its shrubby herbs can grow
up to 1.5 meters tall, with many spiny and has green
stems leaves like those of holly usually. Another
type of sea holly has leaves that are blade dark green
which is stiff. On the other hand,it is deeply lobed with
sharp spines at each lobe's tip curved like a full sun,
flatter in shade.
Spikes of the sea holly are neatly organised.
For the sea holly with flowers, the spikes are located
at the branch tips. The white petals would turn
brownish when it grows older.
capsules squarish and slightly flattened, exploding when ripe to send their whitish, flat seeds flying up to 2 m from the parent plant. Shaded to fully-exposed in the undergrowth and on mud-lobster mounds.
Source: href="http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1045.htm">http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/text/1045.htm
This is a fishtail palm.
It is call 'fishtail' because it's leaves has the shape of a
fish's tail.
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Friday, May 15, 2009 • 12:05 AM
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TESTING TESTING 1 2 3
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 • 11:43 PM
♥ introduction
Hello, our group members are Joanne, Jingyi, Ci Xuan and Xi Tong.
This trip made us learn the importance of plants and animals.
We saw a lot of mangrove creatures which we do not see usually.
We had also gained a lot of knowledge from this trip.
If there is another chance, we would like to back to the mangrove
and learn more things about the plants and animals there.
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This is the first animal we say when we entered - horse.
The view.
This is where many many small creature living on the seashore.
This is a dead crab.
Hermit crabs.
Can you spot the mud skipper?
This is a bee hive.
