Draco - A flying lizard.
A King :
- Is a hooded snake like the Cobra.
- Is the longest of the venomous snakes (grows up to 18feet).
- Is a snake eater.
- Is a nest builder.
Rescuing a king cobra from a village-home near Agumbe - A not so common event I happened to witness during my visit to ARRS.
In memory of Shehla Masood who was shot dead today and many like her who laid down their lives serving mother earth.
It’s easy to see which ants have been sipping which coloured sugar water drops thanks to their transparent abdomens. Father of three Mohamed Babu set up these photographs after his wife, Shameem, showed him some ants that had turned white after sipping on some spilt milk. Dr Babu mixed sugar water with edible colours red, green, blue and yellow and placed them in his garden to attract the insects. He discovered the ants preferred lighter colours such as yellow and green.
(via allcreatures)
Another road accident to add to my list, fractured my big toe on my left foot, its been painful, I can’t put my foot on the floor yet or sit in front of the computer for more than half an hour.
But, that’s not the point of this post…
Its about our National Highways and Railways that are quickly turning into large scale Wildlife Killers. A recent CNN-IBN program showed a National Highway being built in Assam that passes through the forests cutting through the traditional elephant corridors and how the highway work ignores all recommendations/norms to be followed to enable the elephants cross the roads.
“The birth of a road implies the death of wilderness. When a road opens up an area, it serves as an ancillary to further development, as a result of which human footprint increases in the area.” says Prerna Singh Bindra, a conservation journalist in her blog titled: Inroads into Tiger Country
Its time we raise our voice against the Killer roads. Its time to care not just about us.
The gods don’t love us more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.
