{"id":1838,"date":"2014-01-20T04:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2014-01-20T04:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T04:59:27","slug":"feral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"Feral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;foliage garden&#8217; at the Botanical Gardens had a nice water feature, and I can never resist hunting for critters in a water feature.  Rather than the normal, native shrimp or anabantids that belong here, this pond looked like the result of a pet shop explosion &#8212; lots of fancy line-bred guppies and some other hybrid\/domestic livebearers, all of them native to Central America.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, is Singapore so devoid of natural predators that helpless, conspicuous fish like this really have a foothold?  Or is someone actively (yet meaninglessly) maintaining the fauna of this one pond?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden1-577x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SingaporeFoliageGarden1\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden1-577x1024.jpg 577w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden1.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"SingaporeFoliageGarden2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden2-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden3-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"SingaporeFoliageGarden3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden3-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/SingaporeFoliageGarden3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;foliage garden&#8217; at the Botanical Gardens had a nice water feature, and I can never resist hunting for critters in a water feature. 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