Disney’s The Lion King: A Call for Biological Realism
The new Lion King movie is ‘photo-realistic’ and almost seems real. Now, if only the lions in the movie behaved a bit more realistically. Or is that too much to expect?
9 billion by 2050! What about plants and animals?
Have the use of human capital, the green revolution feat and the development choices we made helped India get a relatively-better spot on biodiversity? A biodiversity scientist tells us why….
Coz animals need more teeth
These creatures were here before us and if we are not careful, they are gonna be here after us.. Hair-raising lines from the trailer of Jurassic World: Final Kingdom, aren’t…
What would Elephants remember 2017 for: Harrumphs or Trumps?
It matters because elephants, as experts and fables both hint, never forget anything they feel worth to lock inside their heads. Ah, heads! Animal hunting might seem to be almost…
Grooming Forests. Bathing Bio-diversity. What’s The Body Shop up to?
In an interesting turn of events, The Body Shop has been spotted scrubbing grime of a different sort altogether. It has taken up quite an onerous and an equally significant…
Animal quest: How do they know before disaster strikes
— Shashwat DC That day, Bozo was very unusually disturbed. The Pomerian dog used to be a fairly joyful and playful bugger, but I well remember he was very different back…
Mahatma of Sustainability
— Shashwat DC “What is the message that you have for us?” implored the people attending his sabha. By then, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had transformed into a Mahatma (pious great…
The attack of a tiny-little momma ‘Jacana’!
— Haseeb Shaikh Nalsarovar is a Ramsar site frequented by visitors & dominated by birders, photographers and wildlife enthusiasts. This bird sanctuary is a wetland no less than utopia for…