Two missed calls and a text message came from FTTA Xu Weiting on Friday evening while I was at swim practice. The text message read, "... Someone found a baby pangolin roadkill at Petir Road. Are you able to pick up?"
I quickly confirmed the exact location of the carcass with Weiting, showered hastily and headed over to Plant Systematics Lab to borrow the department's vehicle , grabbed some supplies and rushed down to the site.
Marcus Chua shares his body snatching experience for the first road kill sighting of the year. "We depend largely on public information for sighting records and are happy when we get reports of members of the public observing wild animals in their habitat. However, body snatching operations are something we do not enjoying doing as we prefer to see animals alive, but we try not to pass any over owing to scientific value of animal carcasses for research in urban Singapore. Carcasses are deposited at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research for preservation. We thank the member of the public who informed us of this. "We depend largely on public information for sighting records and are happy when we get reports of members of the public observing wild animals in their habitat. However, body snatching operations are something we do not enjoying doing as we prefer to see animals alive, but we try not to pass any over owing to scientific value of animal carcasses for research in urban Singapore. Carcasses are deposited at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research for preservation. We thank the member of the public who informed us of this."
