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Desert elephants at the dried up Huab River in Namibia Female spraying sand to keep cool while standing guard over her calf, Damaraland, Namibia. Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts in Africa.
The National Museum of Singapore is a public museum dedicated to Singaporean art, culture and history.Located within the country's Civic District at the Downtown Core area, it is the oldest museum in the country, with its history dating back to when it was first established in 1849, starting out as a section of a library at the Singapore Institution [d] as the Raffles Library and Museum.
Nagapuspa Buddhist Culture Museum (Chinese: 龍華文物館; pinyin: Lónghuá Wénwù Guǎn): This museum, in contrast to the rest of the temple, is designed as a less overtly religious environment. It has a total of 278 exhibits, ranging from modern expressionistic works to 2nd and 3rd century Gandharan statuary.
Little Mori's Silkworm Museum; Madame Tussauds Singapore (Sentosa) Mint Museum of Toys; NUS Museum (National University of Singapore) Red Dot Design Museum Singapore [2] The Republic of Singapore Navy Museum [3] Sports Museum; The Gem Museum; Trick Eye Museum [4] The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum; Buddha Tooth Relic and Temple Museum; Hell's ...
An estimated 100 African elephants are killed every day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining, environmentalists estimate. Singapore crushes ivory from ...
The Heritage Roads scheme was implemented in 2001 by the Singapore government to identify and protect roads whereby there are lush road-side trees, often so dense that they create "green walls" and even "green tunnels". [1]
Masked palm civet (Paguma larvata) LC [35] indeterminate [31] – Central Catchment [36] Pulau Tekong, possible escapee [10] (unverified sightings), Adam Road (roadkill in 2021) [37] Asian palm civet ( Paradoxurus hermaphroditus ) LC [ 38 ] – widespread across mainland Singapore in forests, woodlands, parks, and urban areas with trees, Pulau ...
LKCNHM inherited the natural history collections from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. [3] The Museum currently has more than 560,000 catalogued lots in its collection and over a million specimens from throughout the region. [3] [4] The Zoological Reference Collection was formerly known as the Raffles Natural History Collection. [5]