August 2012: As we drove into Nagarahole’s green surrounds, we saw a herd of elephants grazing by the road. We stopped for a while to watch them and immersed ourselves in the tranquillity of the forest.   It was then that we heard the chilling sounds of langurs…

April 2012: A second-time mother, the Kachida Tigress, identified by park authorities as T5 (Tiger Five) had earlier raised three cubs to full maturity in the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve between 2007 and 2010.  It was an extraordinarily…

February 2012: This mother scorpion Hottentotta sp., carrying an astoundingly large number of its pale-coloured young on its back, is the product of over 400 million years of evolution. Its ancestors actually had…

February 2012: We hear the name Cherrapunjee, and the school-book tidbit of it being one of the wettest (if not the wettest) places in the world comes to mind almost immediately. Along…

December 2011: It was in the summer of 2006, during our Indian Forest Service (IFS) training at the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy in Dehradun, that we got a call from the Chief Wildlife Warden of Uttarakhand, Dr. S. Chandola. He…

June 2011: It was the monsoon of 2007. After a heavy downpour the previous night, my colleague Rajesh Sanap and I began scouting the area near the New Zealand hostel in Aarey Milk Colony for a tarantula we had encountered every…

February 2010: The first field study on the Nicobar treeshrew on Great Nicobar Island revealed some unexpected results. In the locality of South Bay adjoining the Galathea National Park situated…