My friend and I were busying ourselves with a pair of tiny bugs when we heard a tiny splash of water. We looked nearby and noticed a stream with a bridge along the way. When we looked down, this was what we saw.
Yes, a really large turtle. It was later identified as a Malayan Giant Terrapin. It was huge, in fact, more than a metre long. Here's a photograph to illustrate its size.
This was the first time I was seeing a turtle/terrapin in these reserves. And yet this was such a large one. We continued snapping more pictures so as to help ourselves with identification. Thank you tHE tiDE cHAsER (www.tidechaser.blogspot.com) for the help with identification!
There was another turtle too, a smaller one. However, it was too far away for us to get a clear shot.
4 comments:
Hey! Looks like a Malayan Giant Terrapin (Orlitia borneensis)! An introduced species in Singapore though.
What a patient subject! He looks like he was posing for you!
Hi Tidechaser, thanks a lot for the info!
Thanks Adrielle! Indeed he was looking up at us, wondering what we were doing!
Hi:
Excellent imagss. May be we saw the same species.
http://visionsanasini.blogspot.com/2011/05/mc-ritchie-to-venus-drive.html
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