Tahrcountry Musings

The mysterious ways in which nature operates leaves me spellbound at times. New researches makes me realize that we have only touched the ti...

An ancient ancestor of ants has been discovered living in the Amazon rainforest. The discovery was made by evolutionary biologist Christian ...

All of us are familiar with apportionment and rationing when there is a resource crunch. Nature resorting to this ploy might sound a wee bit...

The ambitious project to DNA barcode all species (International Barcode of Life) has run in to a bit of rough weather. Scientists use a por...

I have been at times flabbergasted by the alacrity with which the flies avoid the swat. If you have tried to swat flies you know how difficu...

It has become a routine to hear news about depredation of nature from developing countries. Any news that runs counter to this trend is welc...

Mysteries of nature are a source of constant wonder for me. Here is something that shows that our behavior is influenced by heavenly bodies....

I have seen Magpies preening before my motorbike mirror and pecking at their images several times. I had never given it any serious thought....

I was reading this paper “A cohort study of in utero polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures in relation to secondary sex ratio” in BioMed ...

The first ever blog camp held in Kerala on 16th in a house boat cruising along the placid backwaters of Alappuzha, was a smashing success. T...

RED ALERT According to a new paper by Dr Samuel Wasser and associates, which has appeared in August Issue of Conservation Biology the eleph...

Environmentalists world wide hold the view that the Bush administration is not a green administration. Moves like going for oil in Alaska th...

The reintroduction of California Condors is one of the most ambitious reintroduction programme attempted in USA. The project is running in t...

Masai Mara is one Kenya’s best known wildlife reserves. People used to throng the park to have a glimpse of its magnificent wildlife. But co...

A census of critically endangered western lowland gorillas by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has come up with good news for conserv...

The adorable Orangutans (Pongo spp.) are facing an uncertain future. According to new findings published this month by Great Ape Trust of Io...

The first bloggers camp on a houseboat will be held on 16th August at Alappuzha in Kerala. The brain behind the meet is Kenny Jacob, a softw...

50 percent of man’s close relatives (monkeys, apes and other primates) are in danger of extinction according to a report of IUCN issued at t...

The Caprinae are a Subfamily that mainly consist of wild sheep and goats. This group of mammals has a very high economical and biological va...

The latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences features interesting things about Malaysia's pen-tailed tree-shrew’...