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Title Singaporean Creatures : Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City / edited by Timothy P. Barnard
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2024]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
[2024]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Chapter 1 -- Tilapia, Travel and the Making of a Singaporean Creature -- Chapter 2 -- One Drawback of Tropical Living -- Chapter 3 -- Mosquitoes, Public Health and the Construction of a Modern Society -- Chapter 4 -- A Cultural History of Fear, Fascination, Fantasy and Crocodiles in Singapore -- Chapter 5 -- Too Much Monkey Business -- Chapter 6 -- Songbirds in a Garden City -- Chapter 7 -- Marine Life in Service of the State at Public Aquariums and Oceanariums in Singapore -- Chapter 8 -- Nation, Nature and the Singapore Zoological Gardens, 1973-2018 -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 21, 2024)
Subject Human-animal relationships -- Singapore -- History
Human ecology -- Singapore -- History
Human ecology.
Human-animal relationships.
SUBJECT Singapore -- History -- Environmental aspects
Subject Singapore
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Barnard, Timothy P., 1963- editor.
Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9789813252394
9813252391