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The Nee Soon
Freshwater Swamp of Singapore is undoubtedly unique and considered
by many a natural and national treasure to conserve. Its watery abode
still holds one of the widest and little-known spectrum of animal
and plant life found nowhere else in Singapore today; from its largest
and most illusive denizens, the Banded Leaf Monkeys, to the smallest
- like this little yellow beetle chewing on the flatten flower-stalk
of Pterisanthes polita, a rare vine.
While we admire the strangeness of this specially-modified flower-stalk
and wonder upon each hidden bud the creative evolutionary processes
that accompany all life, let us remember that we owe the pollinating
insects our diverse plant world. |
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