MANDYA, KARNATAKA, INDIA: The snake has possibly come into the city during the monsoons because their burrow has filled up with water. Its colour is the same as the flagstones and steps. The mother and her child exit the building. The child would have stepped …
I am going to rely on Dr. Desmond Morris, my favourite source of information with respect to the relationship between animals and people, to answer the question. In his book Horse Watching he comes to the conclusion that the earliest stirrup was “a looped rope …
NEWS AND COMMENT- NAVI SANKALI VILLAGE, GUJARAT, INDIA: A farmer, Bhagvanji Rupapara, has spent almost all his savings in constructing an elaborate, 40-foot-high dove nest tower for 2,500 birds at a cost of nearly £20,000 over the period of one year. He has become a …
NEWS AND COMMENT-MAHARASHTRA, INDIA: In Majalgaon and Lavul village in the state of Maharashtra, India, enraged monkeys are taking revenge on the street dogs by carrying them to the top of trees and buildings and throwing them off to their deaths. And if people try …
A criminal case currently being heard in the Indian state of Rajasthan tells us that judges consider it feasible that a person can be convicted for murder on the basis that they placed a venomous snake next to the victim they intended to kill. If …
India’s Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Environment, Forests and Climate Change (wow, what a title!), Ashwini Kumar Choubey, wants to change the name of the well-known Jim Corbett National Park, India’s biggest wildlife sanctuary, to its previous name which …
This is shocking really. It is sad. Surely this is a breakdown in the human-animal relationship? It was brought on by the Covid pandemic as there are no tourists to feed the monkeys and so they starve. Then there is a mad rush to a …
There are 2 main reasons why there are so many stray dogs in India. One major factor is that there is a lot of garbage lying around in India which feeds stray dogs. This points to a broken municipal system for collecting garbage. Another reason …
Tigers attack humans because humans can be prey animals to a tiger under certain circumstances. That’s the bottom line of it. Although the story isn’t as simple as that because tiger attacks on humans are quite rare when you put them in to perspective, bearing …
