nature | Ecology Explained

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!

Six-legged mermaids

Find out how several species of aquatic beetles live together in a single pond.

Birds, Trees and the Narcondam Islands

Organisation of plant-seed disperser community on an Island in absence of regular small birds

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

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!

How does air pollution affect pollinators?

Researchers from Bangalore studied the effect of varying levels of pollution on Giant honey bees.The study threw up some shocking results!

Black monkey under threat, or is it just stress?

"For my master’s dissertation, I studied the behaviour and ecology of Nilgiri langurs of the Southern western ghats, Tamil Nadu, India"

Bengal Florican: an elusive birds’ disappearing act

Critically endangered Bengal Florican is spotted in the breeding season, but where does it go in the non breeding season?

Why could different forms (morphs) of males evolve together? The red deer example.

Males of red deer can be with or without antlers. Such males in multiple morphs are found in insects like beetles. We ask "WHY?" "HOW!?"

Why is it important to study the natural world scientifically?

Not all of us need to become scientists to contribute to science. Every observation of a bird, butterfly or a moth you make is invaluable.

Hanuman langur is now four different species!

Taxonomy of Hanuman langurs has puzzled researchers for a very long time. This study resolves the identity crisis of Hanuman langurs!

Tweeting in different dialects

What can happen to bird songs if populations of same bird species stop interacting with each other?