Amphibian 两栖动物
American bullfrog 美国牛蛙Katak Lembu (Size Besar)
Scientific Name: Phyllobates terribilis
Photo’s location: Butterfly Park & Insect Kingdom (Sentosa)
Size: may reach 15 cm
Identification: Golden eyes and a large tympanum (eardrum) located just behind the eye. Bullfrogs often have black polka dots on the top of the head and body, blotchy striping on the legs, and a whitish underside with gray mottling.
Habitat: prefers still, shallow waters, like those found at the edges of lakes and ponds or sluggish portions of streams and rivers.
Eating behaviour: They like to eat crayfish, water beetles, snails and dragonfly larvae. The also eat fish, small turtles, young water birds, and even other frogs!
Poison dart frogs 箭毒蛙Katak beracun
Scientific Name: Dendrobatidae
Photo’s location: Floral Fantasy (Gardens by the Bay)
Size: about 20 to 40 mm in length.
Identification: one of the planet’s most brightly colored animals. Depending on the species, they can be yellow, copper, gold, red, blue, green, black or a combination of those colors.
Habitat: live in wet, tropical forests in Central and South America.
Eating behaviour: eat many kinds of small insects, including fruit flies, ants, termites, young crickets, and tiny beetles.
Asian Toad 亚洲蟾蜍 Kodok Asia
Scientific Name: Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Photo’s location: Floral Fantasy (Gardens by the Bay)
Size: Adult: 11 cm Tadpole: 2.7 cm
Identification: it has a stout body and dry skin, unlike frogs which have moist skin. Several bony ridges run along the top of its head, while the raised glands behind its eyes (lightly coloured ovals) are very obvious. Two black stripes run down the top of its head as well. Their tadpoles are tiny and blackish, about the size of a 10-cent coin.
Habitat: can be found in a widespread range of habitats such as in our urban areas, under ground cover (e.g. rocks, leaf litter and logs), in human dominated agricultural land, in water bodies like upper beaches, riverbanks, ponds and lakes, and in disturbed lowland forests and edges of these forest.
Eating behaviour: mostly insectivorous that feed on wasps, bees and ants but are also known to be opportunist that can also feed on a variety of arthropods and mollusks.
Araneidae 蜘蛛科
Batik Golden Web Spider Batik 花园网蛛
Scientific Name: nephila antipodiana
Photo’s location: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Size: Female: 30 mm. Male: 9 mm.
Identification: The female has completely black palps and legs, without any red or yellow joints. On the underside (not shown in photo), there is a strong conical tubercle near the mouth. The sternum is decorated with seven yellow spots on the edge. Spins a web with a yellowish tinge.
Habitat: Gardens and waste-lands, edges of mangrove swamps. Less common in primary forests.
Eating behaviour: feed on flying insects, such as flies and mosquitoes, and therefore provide free insect regulation services to us.
Oval St Andrew’s Cross Spider 長圓金蛛
Scientific Name: argiope aemula
Photo’s location: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Size: Males 3 mm – 4 mm; females 10 mm – 16 mm
Identification: Females have a silvery carapace and a silver, yellow, red and black banded upper abdomen with two longitudinal yellow stripes below. The spider sits with the legs in pairs. The brown and cream coloured males are smaller than females.
Habitat: build medium-sized orb webs, occupied day and night, on low shrubby vegetation.
Eating behaviour: They spin big webs that easily snare insects such as flies, mosquitoes, moths, bees and bugs.
Canidae 犬科
Zuchon
Scientific Name: Canis lupus familiaris
Photo’s location: Singapore Botanic Gardens
Size: around 24–30 cm
Cat breed 猫科
Black Singapura Cat 新加坡黑猫
Scientific Name: Felis catus
Photo’s location: Japanese Cemetery Park
Size: overall height of 15-20 cm and body length of 23-30 cm
Colugo 鼯猴
Malayan colugo (Malayan flying lemur) 馬來亞鼯猴
Scientific Name: Galeopterus variegatus
Photo’s location: Belukar Trail (Chestnut)
Size: about 33 to 42 cm
Habitat: belongs to the tropical rainforests where there is heavy rainfall year round.
Eating behaviour: eating soft plant parts like fruits, flowers, buds, nectar, sap and young leaves.
Gastropoda 腹足纲
Singapore Green Tree Snail 绿树蜗牛 Siput
Scientific Name: Amphidromous atricallosus temasek
Photo’s location: Gardens by the Bay
Size: 25–75 mm high
Habitat: undisturbed forested area
Eating behaviour: Its diet remains a mystery but many researchers speculate that it may feed mainly on fungi, lichens and detritus.
Mustelidae 鼬科
Smooth-coated Otter 江獭 Memerang
Scientific Name: Lutrogale perspicillata
Photo’s location: Singapore River
Size: 59 to 64 cm in head-body length, with a tail 37 to 43 cm
Habitat: wetlands and seasonal swamps, rivers, lakes, and rice paddies.
Eating behaviour: primarily feed on fish, comprising at least 70% of their diet.
Oxudercidae 蚯蚓科
Mudskippers (Periophthalmini) 弹涂鱼
Scientific Name: Oxudercinae
Photo’s location: Pulau Ubin, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Size: up to about 30 cm
Habitat: live in swamps and estuaries and on mud flats
Primate 灵长类动物
Long-tailed macaques 长尾猕猴 kera ekor panjang
Scientific Name: Macaca fascicularis
Photo’s location: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Thomson Nature Park
Size: Length: 85 cm (Female), 80 cm (Male)
Habitat: primary forests, disturbed and secondary forests, and riverine and coastal forests of nipa palm and mangrove.
Eating behaviour: primarily frugivorous, but can become an opportunistic omnivore when fruit availability is limited.
Rodents 啮齿目
Plantain Squirrel 大蕉松鼠 Tupai Pisang
Scientific Name: Callosciurus notatus
Photo’s location: Labrador Nature Reserve, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Size: Head-Body Length : 17-22 cm. Tail Length : 16-21 cm.
Habitat: Secondary forests, parks and gardens in Singapore.
Eating behaviour: Fruits and leaves mostly, but also feed on bird eggs and insects where available.
Suidae 猪科
Wild boar 野猪 Babi hutan
Scientific Name: Sus scrofa
Photo’s location: Pulau Ubin, Lorong Halus Wetland
Size: Length: 90 – 200 cm (Adult, Without Tail)
Habitat: grassy savanna areas, wooded forests, agricultural areas, shrublands and marshy swamplands.
Eating behaviour: includes nuts, acorns, seeds, roots, fruit, rodents, and small reptiles.
True crabs 螃蟹
Hermit crab 寄居蟹 Ketam bertapa
Scientific Name: Paguroidea
Photo’s location: Pulau Ubin
Size: about 1.2-10 cm
Habitat: inhabit forests and marshes near the ocean.
Eating behaviour: small fish, vegetables, brine shrimp, and fish flakes.
Orange fiddler crab 招潮蟹 ketam biola
Scientific Name: Uca vocans
Photo’s location: Pulau Ubin
Size: width 2-3cm.
Habitat: bottom of swimming lagoons, shores near large boulders
Eating behaviour: eat the thin coating of detritus on sand grains.
Tree climbing crab 汀角攀树蟹 ketam panjat pokok
Scientific Name: Episesarma versicolor
Photo’s location: Pasir Ris Park
Size: width 4-5cm.
Habitat: mangrove forests
Eating behaviour: eats mainly leaves,
