Savannah Sprinter – A day at the office with the cheetah
You’ve seen it all before in television documentaries, but watching a cheetah stalk and hunt its prey in the epic theatre of the African savannah is a whole other trip!
Category: Animal Behaviour
Tender, funny, macabre – three wild tales from a weekend in the Anthropocene
A rabbit-eating tortoise. An ungrateful parakeet. An orphaned baby bat. Three weird, funny and moving tales from the animal kingdom as it knocks heads with the Anthropocene
Tadoba Diaries – Taming the Tree Shrew, third time lucky
In Tadoba’s Tigerland, the distinction of the most talked-about couple that evening didn’t go to the pair of tigers we saw, but to the Indian Tree Shrew
Tadoba Diaries – At Telia, the tiger’s yawn gave it away
At Telia, in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, a tiger played hide and seek in the tall sallow grass. Until its yawn gave its presence away
Let the sleeping tiger lie – on meeting the big cat on foot
What might happen when you chance upon a sleeping tiger in the heat of the forest? Especially when you are almost within kissing distance of it? Read on!
Crouching tourist, swimming tiger at Kabini
A swimming tiger! This was the first time in 4,000 safaris that the boat driver and the naturalist had seen a tiger in the water in Kabini
Prying on a leopard – Panthera pardon us!
Wisdom and musings from a 50-minute encounter with a leopard in Nagarahole
Three days in Corbett
Three days in Corbett National Park and Arun Menon returns with a bushel full of lifers… and the sighting of his life leaves us burning bright – with envy!
Love and loss on Swan Lake
Parenting, as none better than dad and mom know, is no child’s play. And the challenges, it appears, are harder when you’re a swan.
Outfoxed by a Mongoose in the cognitive maze
Confusing a mongoose for a fox isn’t an act of uninformed stupidity. It means something is amiss with your Semantic Network
Slumbering Giants – Northern Elephant Seals of Point Reyes
Epiphany on wandering into a gentlemen’s club of sexually exhausted Northern Elephant Seals on a beach in Point Reyes
We don’t need no thought control!
Anand Yegnaswami witnesses a bizarre encounter between a spider and a wasp and stumbles into a freakish discovery of manipulation in animals Mind manipulation is not new to many of us, considering we have watched Jedi Mind Tricks, read about suicide bombers, and seen cricket-playing teams sledge players to get…