India’s Most Commonly Seen Bird: Is It Really the Pigeon?
Discover India's most commonly seen bird, which is not the Rock Pigeon! Join the Great Backyard Bird Count and explore bird diversity!
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Lakshadweep Corals are Dying: Understanding Corals and the Bleaching Crisis
Learn what are corals and how is coral bleaching a threat to Lakshadweep islands
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Can You Copy Bird Calls?
Have you ever mimicked your teachers or prominent celebrities with your friends? We are sure you have. But have you ever tried to mimic...
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Pigeon 101
Are you like Rahul and Babuji from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, "aao, aao, aao-ing" pigeons and feeding them? (Do you get the reference,...
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When Do You Eat Your Mangoes?
What comes to mind when you hear the word "summer"? It's very likely that you think of mangoes after other words like heat, ice cream,...
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Fun, Nature-Based Activities for Kids!
Are you always on the lookout for activities to keep your kids engaged and entertained? We have curated a few activities that you can do...
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Avian Malaria
Did you know that not only humans but birds can also get malaria? We didn’t either until our conversation with Ashwin Warudkar from Bird...
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Reflections on Indian Wildlife Ecologists Conference 2024
The three days we spent at the Indian Wildlife Ecologists Conference (IWEC 2024) were truly heartwarming and filled us with immense...
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Weaver Ants and their Sticky Babies!
Weaver ants are found everywhere around us; you’ve likely seen their nests while walking in a garden or a park. A prominent feature of a...
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Are elephants losing their tusks?
The long elephant teeth we see are called ‘tusks’. In 2021, American scientists found out that because of hunting, African elephants are...
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City Trees with Pink Flowers
As January approaches, many of our cities, especially Bangalore, start blooming with trees with pink flowers. These flowers are called...
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Stray Dog and Wolf Mystery Uncovered!
We all know that dogs and wolves are related. In fact, it is shown that around 15,000 years back, humans started domesticating wolves and...
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Clapping butterflies!
Have you ever noticed that butterflies have much bigger wings than other bugs? Their wings are so big, it makes you wonder how they can...
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It's a snail eat snail kind of world!
Something very sinister was happening on the shores of Odisha! A snail was caught attacking its own family!
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Six-legged mermaids
Find out how several species of aquatic beetles live together in a single pond.
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Birds, Trees and the Narcondam Islands
Organisation of plant-seed disperser community on an Island in absence of regular small birds
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Poor-sighted! Who me? Really?!
The Great Indian Bustard (GIB) writes in response to the recent news article , I'm a big bird and can actually see. I'm not really...
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What’s so fatal about being a silent female katydid?
Researchers studied bat predation of katydids to know if signalling males are more prone to predators than non-signalling females
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What's that hiding in the grasses? Grassland bird's preferred habitat
For my dissertation, I studied birds in one of the most threatened ecosystems of Arunachal Pradesh, the grasslands!
