The monkey bite that helped save Singapore’s scientific treasures
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EJH Corner was a botanist at the Singapore Botanic Gardens who trained pig-tailed macaques to collect botanical specimens. When one of his monkeys bit him, the injury was serious enough to exempt him from serving with the volunteer forces fighting the Japanese after their invasion of Singapore in 1942. Later, as other British civilians were rounded up for internment, Corner appealed to the Japanese authorities to protect the collections of the Botanic Gardens and National Museum from looting — helping preserve some of Singapore’s most important scientific collections. Watch more on War at the Gardens. For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub Follow CNA INSIDER on: Telegram: https://t.me/CNAInsiderSG Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnainsider/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnainsider/ Website: https://cna.asia/cnainsider
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