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.
Balcony Safari – The idle joy of birding
Why go on an expensive safari to watch birds when your backyard is just as well endowed as any forest?
Chasing a Sunset
When a sunset that seemed improbable only a moment ago bloodies the sky, it becomes the fulcrum balancing idle desolation and mad euphoria. A photographic meditation
When the search ends – musings from Kruger
A morning safari at Kruger evokes the question: What if animals thought as humans did?
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
Encounter with a picky eater – Carolina Anole
One thing is clear after watching this Carolina Anole wrestle a stick-fast caterpillar off its leafy perch – this picky eater really loves its greens
Encounter – Golden-bellied Gerygone
Mangrove forests are among the most inaccessible habitats. But it was one at Pranburi in Thailand that I met the Golden-bellied Gerygone singing its lush, soulful song
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
A White-bellied Sea Eagle fishes for compliments
A White-bellied Sea Eagle won’t make that astronomical push without a gastronomical pull and this one had no apparent interest in playing the avian Sisyphus.
Tropical Trance – Seduced by the Peruvian Amazonia
Thirty-five hours of flying and layovers are not good news for anybody’s carbon footprint, but if that is the price to pay for a peep into Amazonia, this sigh-filled travelogue is redemption enough. GAYATRI HAZARIKA can’t help gushing as she describes the biodiversity she encountered on her sojourn in Peru’s rainforest paradise
Trip List – When Bhadra doled out a Dhole
No, we didn’t see the tiger at Bhadra this summer. But nature’s cornucopia overflowed with bird sightings. And yes, a pack of Dhole. Carnivore – check!
Photos: Thinking deep on World Oceans Day
June 8 is World Oceans Day. To those who live along the coastlines of the world, the effects of climate change are more noticeable than ever. Those who walk their dogs by the seafront every day, and those who enter the water to commune with the ocean, those who watch the skies above the water as it reflects the change of seasons… they know that it is not merely we who are changing, but the our actions that have caused what seem like changes too far-reaching to reverse. A Green Ogre photo-feature
Life Around Black-Eyed Susan
‘Stop and smell the roses,’ they say. But they are not talking about the garden. And when they talk about the garden, they are talking merely of flowers. Life, unseen, thrives among the clefts between observed and unobserved. A versified photo-essay by Nagesh Manay