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The Jurong Reptile Park was the largest reptile park in Singapore when it was closed in 2006 [1] because of other more popular zoos in Singapore such as Jurong Bird Park (a short walk across the parking lot) and the Singapore Zoo. The site is now occupied by The Village @ Jurong Hill.
There are about 110 species of reptiles in Singapore. [1] Most of them are small or rarely seen, but there are a few which are large or prominent. The largest reptiles found in Singapore are the estuarine crocodile and the reticulated python .
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
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Singapore has roughly 80 species of mammals (out of 11 different orders) including 45 species of bats and three species of non-human primates. [9] Currently, the only introduced non-domestic mammal species in Singapore is the variable squirrel. [10] The abundance of bats however has been decreasing rapidly due to habitat loss of over 95%. [11]
Some neurons appear to be tuned to detect movement in one direction. It has been found that the snake's visual and infrared maps of the world are overlaid in the optic tectum. This combined information is relayed via the tectum to the forebrain. [9] The nerve fibers in the pit organ are constantly firing at a very low rate.
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A dog-toothed cat snake in Thailand. Boiga cynodon is a widespread species in Southeast Asia, ranging from southern Thailand into Peninsular Malaysia (including Pulau Tioman) and Singapore, extending south into Indonesia as far as Bali (including the Mentawai Archipelago, Sumatra, Nias, the Riau Archipelago, and Java).