Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
Public Gallery
Dugong
| Dugongs are large grey mammals which spend their entire lives in the
sea. Although it lives in the sea, it respirates through lungs and bears
babies rather than eggs, thus differentiating them from fish. One
of these poor animals was washed up on a beach along East Coast Parkway
on 29th July 2001, and its carcass was dumped into one of the garbage
trucks. Personnel from Raffles Museum received the report and went
to retrieve the skull, which has become one of the exhibits in the
museum. Members of the public can see the display of the skull
during opening hours of the museum. |