Daft Sinkies mistaken a Monitor Lizard for a Crocodile..

[zeddy]

Sengkang river creature is "monitor lizard"


Posted: 21 February 2012 2057 hrs

SINGAPORE: A creature -- feared to be a crocodile -- spotted by residents in the north eastern part of Singapore has been confirmed to be a monitor lizard, said an animal welfare group.

Channel NewsAsia received a hotline call on Tuesday morning that a "crocodile" was seen in the Sengkang river, near a condominium.

The creature, gliding upstream with its head above water, was captured on Channel NewsAsia's camera.

Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES), which saw the video, confirmed the reptile was a monitor lizard.

Earlier, national water agency PUB and ACRES sent teams to Sengkang river to investigate but the reptile had fled by the time they arrived.

However, the episode led to the question of who should be contacted if a crocodile were spotted in a neighbourhood.

Channel NewsAsia ran a check with various authorities and understands if the reptile was found in a river, a canal or any waterway, PUB should be contacted.

The police said if the reptile was found around the HDB estate, the town council should be alerted.

But whether it's in water or on land, ACRES said it stands ready to respond to any calls of animals in distress.

The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) told Channel NewsAsia if it receives feedback from the public on wildlife, AVA will coordinate and liaise with the relevant agencies for follow-up action.

Experts said if members of the public see such wildlife, they are advised not to go near or provoke the animal.

ACRES executive director Louis Ng said: "If they are unprovoked, they won't attack. The key thing is to stay a distance from the animal. Don't approach them, don't make a lot of noise.

"Don't stamp on the ground, no sudden movements, then there will be very little public safety concerns."

Crocodiles have been spotted in public in the past, in places such as parks and reservoirs.

- CNA/wk

 

[Conqueror]

Stupid Media Too

It was a big lizard like a monitor lizard. Croc head will not lift its head up while swimming. And the stupid Media Corpse also believed it was a croc. Croc should look like the one on top.

 

[sleaguepunter]

ln the past, there were buaya in sungei serangoon. but it 10+ years since i last saw one. development destroy natural habitat.:(

 

[zeddy]

ln the past, there were buaya in sungei serangoon. but it 10+ years since i last saw one. development destroy natural habitat.:(

Bro you really saw one 10 years back? I guess it must be a saltwater croc.. Used to hire this boatman for my fishing trip.. He told me that he once saw a 2m croc near Pulau Ubin around 9 years back..

 

[laksaboy]

Calm down Sinkies. It was obviously the Loch Ness monster. A friendly creature, a herbivore.

 

[chupacabra]

One time I was on a river cruise in Malacca and an ang mor shithead was heard saying to his family "Did you see the crocodile" It was a monitor lizard. Haha

 

[zeddy]

One time I was on a river cruise in Malacca and an ang mor shithead was heard saying to his family "Did you see the crocodile" It was a monitor lizard. Haha

6 years back when I was in Kuching for a short stay, someone borrowed me this tourist magazine about Sarawak.. Read that there was this gigantic Saltwater croc in Sarawak who terrorized villagers living near a river 20 years ago or so.. He ate many victims.. Sarawak rangers then hunted down this biggie.. The amazing thing is, the villagers and the Sarawak wildlife officers hired the service of a Shaman to help them capture the big croc.. They kept his big skull in a crocodile farm..

 

[halsey02]

ln the past, there were buaya in sungei serangoon. but it 10+ years since i last saw one. development destroy natural habitat.:(

MacRitchie reservoir carparks have a lot buayas, some is called Tactical Ranger, geylang have a lot of buayas & people's park too. An average SINgaporean have not seen animals close up nowadays, monitor lizard they say Crocodile..luckily not alligator!!

 

[Agoraphobic]

How come people who can score straight A's can't tell the difference between a buaya and a si-kar-chua? And these are local wildlife too!

Cheers!

 

[Leongsam]

What a bunch of wimps. Humans and crocs have coexisted for ages.

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[BuiKia]

Hahaha...I thought many of us are considered educated? What the fuck did they learn in school?

 

[sleaguepunter]

Bro you really saw one 10 years back? I guess it must be a saltwater croc.. Used to hire this boatman for my fishing trip.. He told me that he once saw a 2m croc near Pulau Ubin around 9 years back..

that was before the condo were built along HG ave 7. those days the the concrete embankment only cover part of the way so if jogging along the jogging track along the sungei serangoon, the last 1/3 part will running with vegetation till the dead end where jogger have to turn back. at the end of the track, there were some excerise aids and the fence blocking access to the river where there a fork waterway to connect to the river. at low tide the mudflat near the bank are expose, sometime can see buayas. but not the big type, abt metre or so. that was so long ago, maybe ard early 90s.. so it closer to 20 years. in the 80s, the river directly opposite Evergreen Condo was a ship repair yard where the punggol fishing fleet service their boats.

 

[halsey02]

that was before the condo were built along HG ave 7. those days the the concrete embankment only cover part of the way so if jogging along the jogging track along the sungei serangoon, the last 1/3 part will running with vegetation till the dead end where jogger have to turn back. at the end of the track, there were some excerise aids and the fence blocking access to the river where there a fork waterway to connect to the river. at low tide the mudflat near the bank are expose, sometime can see buayas. but not the big type, abt metre or so. that was so long ago, maybe ard early 90s.. so it closer to 20 years. in the 80s, the river directly opposite Evergreen Condo was a ship repair yard where the punggol fishing fleet service their boats.

People think that the PAP made the world around them....what do they know what "kangkar" was, even way back 20 years..or ?!

 

[sleaguepunter]

People think that the PAP made the world around them....what do they know what "kangkar" was, even way back 20 years..or ?!

the kangkar i know was abt 1km down the road where pap now claim to be at hougang central. it was just a few kampong style houses after the church where there no road leading to the houses. Why call kangkar, i dunno. by the time hdb flat were built at ave 5, those houses in kangkar already demolish and kangkar turn into a sbs terminal for bus no. 74, 80 & 147.

 

[Ramseth]

10 or more years ago, crocodiles are nothing uncommon in Singapore inland river areas like Punggol, Serangoon, Kallang, Whampoa etc. They could swim all the way here from Malaysia or Indonesia, some were indigenous here. However, most of these rivers are now lined with concrete slabs sloping banks. Crocodiles will avoid such areas as concrete slopping banks make it impossible for they to climb ashore when they need to as amphibians need time on land too. And these are freaking lazy animals slow cruising in water or lying on land idling their time away except when disturbed and in defense or during hunting and feeding time.

Monitor lizards are much smaller and nimble. The concrete slopes are not a problem for them to prance up and down. An adult man should be able to catch a monitor with bare hands but don't ever try that with a crocodile. Even Crocodile Dundee has to be armed with a Rambo elephant knife to do it.

Those who've never seen a crocodile before, go visit the East Coast Crocodile Farm or the Mandai Zoo. Most crocodiles that police caught through the years and decades were donated to them. Crocodile skin is famous for leather but crocodile meat is quite delicious too. More tender as a freshly cooked dish than what most would imagine with such a tough looking animal. Available in China and Australia. In Australia, dried BBQ chewy crocodile jerky is also available as a snack.

 

[goldenmonkey]

... Crocodile skin is famous for leather but crocodile meat is quite delicious too. More tender as a freshly cooked dish than what most would imagine with such a tough looking animal. Available in China and Australia. In Australia, dried BBQ chewy crocodile jerky is also available as a snack.

You can get dried crocodile meat from Chinese herbal shops in Singapore too, they are good for asthma.

 

[Unrepented]

Hallo,

"Residents" does not mean sinkies.

"Locals" does not mean sinkies also.

 

[syed putra]

One time I was on a river cruise in Malacca and an ang mor shithead was heard saying to his family "Did you see the crocodile" It was a monitor lizard. Haha

There are crocodiles in malacca river, as well as many rivers in Johore state. They feed on wild pigs and are bronze in colour. But not as large as those found in Sarawak.

 

[butoh6050]

There is no wildlife in singapore and the kids nowadays never even see any living things one.
One day someone is going to call the police and the papers claiming to have seen a rare exotic colourful bird and upon investigation , it will turn out to be a rooster.

 

[byleftcan]

Hallo,

"Residents" does not mean sinkies.

"Locals" does not mean sinkies also.

Residents not Singaporeans ok. But locals means Singaporeans though to most of us. You have a different take?