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Ranjit Lal
Lal is an author, environmentalist and bird watcher.
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Down in Jungleland: Stealth BomberSubscriber Only
November 11, 2018 06:00 IST
The barn owl is the silent killer that all rodents fear. The barn owl has a spine-tingling repertoire of shrieks, screams and banshee-like screeches, and other owls (like the eagle-owl) have deep booming hoots and calls.
Sun, Nov 11, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Tool StorySubscriber Only
October 21, 2018 06:00 IST
Much like humans, animals have fashioned their own tools — with far less devastating consequences.
Sun, Oct 21, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Badass BadgerSubscriber Only
October 14, 2018 06:00 IST
There’s nothing sweet about the honey badger except its intention to kill. Be warned, this guy is no Gandhian and has retained the Guinness Book of World Records title as “the world’s most fearless creature” on what seems to be a permanent basis.
Sun, Oct 14, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Call Me by Another NameSubscriber Only
October 07, 2018 06:00 IST
One day, we’ll be hauled up for the kind of names we have given to animals around us. Let us see what kind of case they may have and what arguments the defence (ourselves) may come up with to counter them.
Sun, Oct 07, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Bird of WonderSubscriber Only
September 30, 2018 06:00 IST
The life and times of the enigmatic hoopoe found in Africa, Europe and central Asia, and, in India,
Sun, Sep 30, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Family TiesSubscriber Only
September 23, 2018 06:00 IST
On our closest relatives in the natural world. Since, like it or not, we are all related in this natural world, we might as well make the best of it.
Sun, Sep 23, 2018
The Wild PlacesSubscriber Only
September 22, 2018 00:16 IST
A hands-on approach to conservation from those working in forest lands that don’t get the attention they deserve.
Sat, Sep 22, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Wonder WingsSubscriber Only
September 16, 2018 06:00 IST
A list of favourite birds, from the magpie-robin to the rose-ringed parakeet.
Sun, Sep 16, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Best Beasts ForwardSubscriber Only
September 09, 2018 06:00 IST
On the list of favourite animals is a badass ballerina: the rhino.
Sun, Sep 09, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Lesser MortalsSubscriber Only
September 02, 2018 06:00 IST
The poaching of small animals, especially pangolins, isn’t talked about as much as they should be.
Sun, Sep 02, 2018
Down in Jungleland: The Road to RuinSubscriber Only
August 25, 2018 06:00 IST
Highways and aerodromes on wildlife spaces are terrible news. The proposed highway, it is said, will cut the distance between Kotdwar and Ramnagar by almost 80 km — imagine the savings in time and fuel. Also imagine some of the other things that are likely to happen.
Sat, Aug 25, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Shooting BirdsSubscriber Only
August 19, 2018 06:00 IST
The digital art of capturing birds.
Sun, Aug 19, 2018
Down in Jungleland: The Hunter and the GentlemanSubscriber Only
August 12, 2018 06:00 IST
The incredible life of Jim Corbett. Having spent a lifetime roaming the Kumaon and Garhwal forests, Corbett was an expert tracker, reading the faintest signs left behind by his quarry.
Sun, Aug 12, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Singing in the RainSubscriber Only
August 05, 2018 06:00 IST
How the rain rejuvenates nature and the many lives it nurtures. Here, the summers are blazing, with everything in sight bleached white by the sun. There is dust on every surface around us.
Sun, Aug 05, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Death of a TreeSubscriber Only
July 29, 2018 05:45 IST
The munificence of trees is lost on a people bent on destroying the very thing that gives them life. It’s not as if nature makes life easy for trees. A tiny undigested seed may be deposited in a dung heap by an animal that has just munched a delicious fruit.
Sun, Jul 29, 2018
Down in Jungleland: We Are (Twisted) FamilySubscriber Only
July 22, 2018 06:00 IST
Ahoy, humans! Animals have it complicated too.
Sun, Jul 22, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Flying Over the Cuckoo’s NestSubscriber Only
July 08, 2018 00:00 IST
Have you been made a cuckoo of recently? The common hawk-cuckoo impersonates a shikra found in lightly wooded countryside, gardens and groves. The pied cuckoo, aka the Jacobin cuckoo, is a maverick.
Sun, Jul 08, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Wild DeceptionSubscriber Only
July 01, 2018 00:00 IST
In the forest, mimicry is often a way of life. Of course, now technology has stepped in and you don’t even need to know how to howl like a wolf or roar like a tiger. You simply play back recordings and wait.
Sun, Jul 01, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Beyond First ImpressionsSubscriber Only
June 24, 2018 06:00 IST
The common garden lizard gets a bad rap for little reason.
Sun, Jun 24, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Singing in the RainSubscriber Only
June 17, 2018 00:00 IST
Of peacocks and peahens who come alive during the monsoon. It is during the monsoons, that the gentlemen come into their own. A dancing peacock can stop you in your tracks no matter how many times you may have seen it perform before.
Sun, Jun 17, 2018
Down in Jungleland: The Red Pierrot MysterySubscriber Only
June 11, 2018 14:29 IST
If only humans, too, could metamorphose like the butterfly.
Mon, Jun 11, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Small, Pesky and PowerfulSubscriber Only
June 03, 2018 06:00 IST
Can the wild and its big game do without the tiny tots?
Sun, Jun 03, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Deadly in White SatinSubscriber Only
May 27, 2018 06:05 IST
Let not the beauteous egret fool you of its attacking skills. The snowy little egrets on reedy black legs and splayed yellow feet mince around ponds and waterbodies, where they display myriad fishing techniques.
Sun, May 27, 2018
Down in Jungleland: Spider PitchSubscriber Only
May 13, 2018 00:00 IST
Would you walk into an arthropod emporium to buy silk? What if spiders sold their silk? Imagine walking into a silk emporium run by arachnids, you would be greeted by a sales-spider: a charming, young Ms/Mr Hairy-legs.
Sun, May 13, 2018
Wild At HeartSubscriber Only
May 12, 2018 00:57 IST
Wildlife biologist Rauf Ali takes on animals, bureaucrats, politicians, policemen, villagers, students, forest officers — and everyone he encounters during the course of his work and research, with point-blank frankness.
Sat, May 12, 2018Journalism of Courage
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