The Indian smuggler Abdul Jaffar had wrapped the tiny tortoises in cloth and bundled them in his suitcase. After he was caught at Singapore Changi Airport, a veterinarian in Singapore, assessing the health of the smuggled tortoises, said that this manner of transportation had caused the little creatures “unnecessary suffering”.
Tag: Wildlife
Singapore Bird Paradise welcomes gentoo penguin chicks; rescued rockhopper penguin has a shot at love
Pascale, the one-year-old female northern rockhopper penguin, arrived in Singapore from Perth Zoo on 28 November 2024. Following a two-week isolation period for close monitoring, she makes her debut in the Bird Paradise penguin habitat in the second week of December.
Tigress strays into Uttar Pradesh village in Pilibhit as spectacle draws thousands under the shadow of man-animal conflict
Both panic and excitement gripped Athkona village in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district when a tigress, supposedly injured, strayed into the human habitation and perched on a wall, quite peacefully though, till the forest officials captured it on Tuesday (December 26) amid thousands of onlookers. According to media reports, the tigress ventured out of Pilibhit Tiger […]
Mandai Wildlife Reserve: Guests turn up to bid farewell to Singapore’s first giant panda cub Le Le before its return to China
The school holiday brings a more joyful buzz to the Mandai Wildlife Reserve during the year’s end. But things are a little different at River Wonders. About 1,000 guests turned up at the park on Wednesday (December 13, 2023) to bid farewell to giant panda cub Le Le on his last day in his exhibit […]
