The Peaceful People
Name: Chanel ; Claudia ; Jia En ; Adina
School: Jurong Secondary School
Living In: Singapore
Components of the blog ;
Part A: Introductions to Jurong Lake Park
Part B & C: Grouping and naming organisms ; “Specialty” Community
Part D: Impact of man on Jurong Lake Park
Part E: Conservation Efforts at Jurong Lake Park
Part F : Credits and Acknowledgement
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The Past
August 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Some of the animals found in Jurong Lake Park
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Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobrachia
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pila
The picture above shows traces that this unknown bird has passed by this area before. It is a feather of an unknown species of bird. This tells us that there might be chances that this bird will return to Jurong Lake Park again.
Plantain Squirrel: Callosciurus notatus
We suspect that this squirrel might be a Plantain squirrel.
An interesting fact about the plantain squirrel is that it is the most commonly seen squirrel in Singapore. It is brown with a red belly and has a black stripe on each side. Moves around with a single chips, each accompanied by a vigorous flourish of the tail. It is approximately 15-22cm. Its diet consists of fruit pulp and seeds, flowers or leafy shoots, supplemented with arthopods. It is active during the day in the middle and lower storey of the forest, usually solitary.
Its habitat is Gardens and forest habitats including mangrove.The threats they face is habitat destruction.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Callosciurus
Species: Callosciurus notatus
Unknown species of dead fish. The flies helps decomposers to decompose the dead fish.
An unknown species of water snail which is crawling slowly in the small body of water found in the drain at Jurong Lake Park.
Peacefully blogged at 07:37
