wildlife

WillKat and the Endearing Eleven of Kaziranga

Vivek Menon

The royal couple makes a difference in the animal kingdom too

A Cockney Chaffinch and the Art of Birdsong

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

Onward and Upward

Ranjit Lal

This celebration of Indian birds is a treasure chest that might even kick-start a lifelong passion in readers

The Tiger, The Tusker And a Forest Guard

Vivek Menon

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

Green versus Red

Jay Mazoomdaar

The future of conservation in some of India’s most resource-rich forests hinges on how battles shape up between rebels and the State

View to a Kill

Lhendup Bhutia

Looking for the big cat in Kenya’s less known wildlife parks

The Leopard in My Backyard

Lhendup G Bhutia

Where close encounters with creatures of the wild are disturbingly common

Trunk Call

B Ramakrishnan

Shy lovemaking, illicit liquor consumption, and other elephant habits that this researcher has noted in his 15 years on their tail

Dispatched to Die

Jay Mazoomdaar

The latest death of a translocated tiger reiterates how Sariska continues to stand for everything that could have gone wrong with conservation in India.