Took a night stroll yesterday after a gap… its a nice thing to do every night. The frog-orchestra for which no sophisticated Bose speaker or Dolby Surround System was any match… faded off after a while once they realized we were there. But after a while, they started again… Came across these reflections… what is…
Have seen many amazing animal videos since childhood, but this was quite incredible. The comments are based on the video below, and are only relevant if you watch it. Usually langurs give out an alarm call, but the langur mother here is very calm and composed, and rather than blindly react, is very observant of…
Yesterday night, saw this frog who’d somehow made it indoors… the size of a thumbnail… seemed to be well adapted to the flooring tiles 🙂 Looking at the movement of the throat… I’d assumed it was the frog’s pulse. Or maybe it was practicing croaking and waiting for me to go away to increase the…
The distinction between a turtle, tortoise or terrapin comes from what habitat they are adapted to live in. Marine-based turtles spend most of their lives at sea, only returning to land to lay eggs. Their shells are flat and streamlined to help reduce drag while swimming. Unlike land-based tortoises who have short, sturdy legs, turtles…
Was amazed to by chance witness social spiders having their morning breakfast… Whereas most spiders are solitary and even aggressive toward other members of their own species, some hundreds of species in several families show a tendency to live in groups, often referred to as colonies ~ wiki Look at how many of them come…
A non-poisonous snake was found in our neighborhood which a snake handler came on request and caught it, to release it into the wild. A little girl aged around 7 years loved the snake and requested if she can hold it for a while… The snake handler showed the snake to us. I wanted to…