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[Eco@Woodlands]
"Finding
Nemo"
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look no further, he's here in your backyard and he needs
your help!
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Zeehan
Jaafar
Marine Biology Lab
Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore
Saturday, 20th
September 2003: 3.30pm - 5.30pm
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Amazon Room (behind
Magazines section)
Level 1, Woodlands Regional Library
How
to get there
About the Talk
The movie “Finding Nemo” has motivated
interest in various marine organisms. In this talk, the
speaker only unveils the lifestyle of Nemo, but of other
species of clownfishes as well. She will explain how they
find a life partner (courtship behaviour), look after babies
(parental care), how they grow (larval phase), who's
the boss (social hierarchy) and sex change! She will explain
why clownfishes love to hang out around anemones and how
both benefit for this special relationship.
Guess what? Nemo lives in
the surprisingly rich waters of Singapore too! But all is
not well because of things like pollution - plastic debris
which come mainly from the land, for example! Our precious
hard corals are being taken out of the sea and there is a
thriving trade in selling marine animals. Our action as
consumers have consequences and come along to find out if
anyone is doing anything about this and how you too can help
in simple ways.
About the
Speaker
Ms Zeehan Jaafar is currently a graduate student
at the Marine Biology Laboratory, Department of
Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore
conducting taxonomical research on mudskippers and other
goby fishes. Her main interest is the biology, ecology and
behaviour of coastal and reef fishes. She has been active as
a volunteer guide with the NUS Raffles Museum of
Biodiversity Research and is one of the contributors to
the recently launched Chek Jawa Guidebook.
 "Big
Jump in Seizure of Illegal Corals
- From 56 -
550"
The New Paper, Monday 21 July
2003
ADMISSION
IS FREE. ALL ARE WELCOME!
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Parking at Carpark 10
Seminar Room 3
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Seminar Room 4 (SR4)
Block S3, Level 2
Science Drive 4
Life Sciences Lab
7A-D
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Block S2, Level 3
Science Drive 4
Lecture Theatre 32
(LT32, next to Block S1A)
Science Drive 4
Raffles Museum
Block S6, Level 3
Science Drive 2
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Meetings
of the Biodiversity & Ecology Journal Club,
2003
Public
Talk
Wolfgang
L. Werner-
"Droughts
in evergreen rainforests of
Southeast Asia". 29th
August 2003
DBS
Seminar
Nathaniel Dominy - "Fruits, fingers and form: New views on
Anthropoid origins". 29th
August 2003
DBS
Special Seminar
Peter
Ng and N. Sodhi -
"Catastrophic
extinctions follow deforestation in
Singapore".
27th
August 2003
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meetings, Jul 2000 -Dec 2002
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