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One hour of Herps: Jagah Duty at BTNR

Jagah [jah-gah] (v) : To guard, take care of. Becky, Ing Sind and I signed up to do Jagah duty at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve on the 26th of April 2015. We turned up at Hindhede Road at 2pm to get briefed. We were, of course excited about the job at hand. But we were also nervous. TryingContinue reading “One hour of Herps: Jagah Duty at BTNR”

Stop and Look Up: Herping in Mandai

Living in the concrete jungle of Singapore, being constantly surrounded by high rise buildings, roads and a cacophony of over 5 million people speaking in different languages while bustling about, it’s convenient to think that that’s all there is to our ‘little red dot’. But if you’re game enough, it’s just as easy to have a change in sceneContinue reading “Stop and Look Up: Herping in Mandai”

Herp Quest to Bintan

The HSS went on its first overseas herping trip to Bintan from 10-12 April 2015. As far as reptiles and amphibians are concerned, Bintan is a fantastic place to go. From a previous trip, Ing Sind reported seeing a Kuhl’s Flying Gecko (Ptychozoon kuhli), which is very rare in Singapore. Besides herps, we were really hoping to see the Pale-thighedContinue reading “Herp Quest to Bintan”

Herpetology and our Logo

WHAT IS HERPETOLOGY? No, it’s nothing to do with STDs. Herpetology is the study of herpetofauna, that is, reptiles and amphibians. The name is derived from the Greek word, “ἑρπετόν”, herpeton, which refers to the creeping nature of the subjects. FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster was a strange amalgam of human body parts, scavengedContinue reading “Herpetology and our Logo”