3rd part... One of the best things of all here is Draco volans, the flying dragon. We have caught them directly outside or place, about 50 metres from where I sit typing this. I'll post some pix of these guys sometime when a get some time and work out how to post pix, being new to this gig.
The keeping of herps is illegal in Singapore, but people do it, despite big fines. Animals are smuggled in from Malaysia where you can get anything. My son and I caught a matamata in the koi pond at our old condo. We kept it for a few months then gave it to the zoo. In the same pond was an alligator snapping turtle but I saw it only rarely and was never able to catch it - it was extremely shy. Red-eared pond sliders exist in plague proporions, though the powers that be have done a bit of ethnic cleansing of them over the last year or so. Soft shelled pig-nosed turtles are common as well. There's an island half an hour by boat of singapore that has a turtle temple. My son later found out matamata are worth $5000, so they must be rare in Malaysia. GTP are $200 (!!). Ball pythons are popular. Chameleons are available and not particularly expensive apparently. We haven't kept anything thing here except for the matamata and a star tortoise because we are always away somewhere in the school holidays and I travel a lot for work. I'm the herp expert in the family - although my eldest son is the expert catcher- so it wasn't really practical to keep them, sad but realistic. We'll be back in Oz next year and my son is hopeful that his various friends who are looking after our animals will give them back!
:lol: I don't know what they are complaining about! The only difference is, we contend with red-back spiders under the toilet seat and the Singaporeans have Spitting Cobras - What's the big deal??? :shock::lol:
