One of the most prominent feature of the Singapore Botanic Gardens is the "Swan Lake", a pond where Snowylad fell in once. Now, can't have a swan lake without the swan, so the NPB imported the swans in pairs, male and female.
There're now 3 pairs, 2 whites at the Swan Lake, and a black pair at the Bukit Timah core's pond. Since I was young, there had always been 2 of them at the swan lake, the other 2 pairs relatively recent additions.
Recent MYCS Baby Bonus talks got me wondering why is it that we never saw the swans having cygnets ... after all, they had been well provided with accomodation and food.
I sent off a letter to NPB asking them about it, and the almost sheepish answer came back a couple of days ago, admitting that probably due to the fact that these birds aren't used to tropical climate, they aren't reproducing. They hope the swans will reproduce after getting used to the climate here.
Well, as I mentioned before, the park have been having swans for decades now, and obviously, if they really want cygnets around, they got to do more than hope, especially if they know these birds are from temperate climates.
I'm sure there's a lesson here somewhere for MCYS too ... about why Baby Bonus is not getting them the results they want.
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