Sharing Cyrene with URA and NParks

I'm delighted to be on Cyrene this morning on a trip organised by NParks for an enthusiastic team from URA led by CEO URA.

The CEO had found and gently caught a crab! The rest of the team comes along to have a look at it. Here's more about what we saw.

An evening with the Toddycats!

Last night, I spent a delightful evening at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research with Siva and the Toddycats, volunteers of the Museum.

Siva has invited us to celebrate the launch of the new Singapore Biodiversity Encyclopedia!

Creepy killer barnacles on Changi

Barnacles may seem harmless, but there are some that are insidious parasites of crabs! These gruesome parasites creep into the crab, living on it and hijacking the crab into producing their eggs!

Here's one victim of the parasitic barnacle! How do we know this?

Magnificent part of Semakau

There is a stretch of Pulau Semakau which has lots of Magnificent sea anemones!

This stretch of shore lies in front of the replanted mangroves on Pulau Semakau. The bright purple body columns of the Magnificent anemone dotted the shore in the early morning light.

Cyrene AND Raffles Lighthouse!

I'm back again on Cyrene Reef, this time with a very adventurous team from NParks.

This included the CEO of NParks and members of the NParks Board as well as many enthusiastic members of their social club and other NParks staff.

Moon snail eats crab!

Moon snails have been observed to hunt fast-moving soldier crabs in Australia!

In Singapore, we do have soldier crabs (Dotilla sp.) and moon snails (Family Naticidae) living near one another on our sandy shores too. It's time to observe whether our moon snails also hunt these crabs!