Encounter: Northern Treeshrew in Arunachal Pradesh
Running into a Northern Treeshrew in Arunachal Pradesh can be exhilarating. This tiny mammal, resembling a pointy-nosed squirrel, is more closely related to primates.
Category: Mammals
Got milk? You’re thinking mammals. These are higher-order warm-blooded vertebrates that are, more often than not, covered in body hair or fur, have external ears, and feed their young on milk produced by specialised glands. Exceptions? Yes, a few.
Kutch Diaries – Spying on the elusive Desert Cat
Now you see it, now you don’t. Whether it is stalking prey or just being scarce, the Desert Cat is an elusive customer that inhabits the magical landscape of Banni Grasslands.
Why so serious? Eavesdropping on dogs and cats at Kabini
Tiger or dhole? What floats your boat? Notes from a safari in Kabini while suffering the company of Serious wildlife photographers
In Borneo, we met the Colugo – the Flying Lemur that isn’t
Daytime wildlife spotting in the rainforest can be luckless. But then, walking the coastal trail at Bako National Park, we met the extraordinary Colugo aka the Sunda Flying Lemur
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!
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
Encounter – Hoary-bellied Squirrel
Hailing from a family known as the ‘beautiful squirrels’, the Hoary-bellied Squirrel is handsome enough despite the plainness of its coat. To see this mammal in the wild, head for the forests of northeast India
Rancho La Brea – a time machine in asphalt
The George C Page Museum of Tar Pit Discoveries in Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California features some stunningly well-preserved mammal fossils from the Pleistocene. It’s a journey back in time but — shudder! — those Sabertooth canines are unnerving!
Nut job – When a monkey steals a coconut
What happens when a monkey chances upon a coconut? Well, let’s just say there’s no business like monkey business. And monkey business is show business. Enjoy this video
It’s not a bird, it’s a jird
Happy 2015! Take inspiration from the Indian Desert Jird. Dig deep into your past to find the key to the future.