Is it the colour, the size or the frenetic lifestyle that defines the very loveliest things in nature?

How much longer before India too falls prey to the darker side of conservation?

Learning about the evolution of birds

Retreating Arctic ice caps, the plight of the polar bears and the question of speciation in a summer of forebodings

What is captivity to a living being? Is it only an animal in a zoo that suffers? Or do wild animals feel captive in the wild too?

The demise of Sudan could mean permanent extinction for the Northern White rhinoceros

The royal couple makes a difference in the animal kingdom too

What do bird calls do to human minds? Our brains store away the aural backgrounds to our lives and when we hear strange, unfamilar sounds, we feel alienated. In this personal aural mindscape of ours, birds play a major part

Watching her from our elephant-back vantage, there was a peace that was starting to descend on that wretched Dhikala chaur. The chital went back to their grass. The elephant breathed slowly, then slower, and then no more. The tigers of Corbett had claimed their largest victim yet

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…