Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Wild Boar Sighting

The other night, in Singapore, we took the Old Upper Thomson route home, hoping to glimpse some wild monkeys (the ones the huge signs warn you not to feed), as there usually are quite a few along that route.

Suddenly, we saw a whole herd of these things Charge across the little road from the side with the houses, straight into the jungle!!! It was like - !!! what ARE those? we kept driving.

And then, just after the Prata coffeeshop row and before Upper Peirce Reservoir, we came across another herd - all 9 of them, just ruminating on the side of the (back) road. It must have been a different herd because it was quite a distance between the two sightings.

I was too scared (in case they erm, charge towards the open window??!) to roll down the window too much to snap images of them, but managed to get some quick ones even though it was really dark. There were adults and babies, all sniffing and scratching away.

Did a quick google search and apparently these sightings are irregular but have happened before.

For the rest of the trip, we kept driving by hoping to see them again - we didn't. Guess we got lucky that one night.


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