Ranjit Lal
Lal is an author, environmentalist and bird watcher.
Articles By Ranjit Lal
Down in Jungleland: Once Upon A Time in Aarey
Memories of the unspoiled beauty of Mumbai’s lakes and green lungs.
Down in Jungleland: Season of Scares
We are criminally neglectful in the way we behave around snakes.
Down In Jungleland: To Love and to Protect
Claws, teeth and wile — no holds are barred when defending territory and young ones in the wild.
Down in Jungleland: Hello, Sunshine
Why rely on alarm clocks, when you have the musical charms of the bulbul to begin the day with?
Stars and stripes
With celebrities venturing into Corbett National Park, have good times for tigers finally come?
Hatch them off guard
Furore in a crow’s nest as cuckoo babies come out of the closet.
Down in Jungleland: The importance of mangroves
Mangroves are essential natural barriers against the elements
Down in Jungleland: In the Beat of a Wing
How a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly is a miracle of nature.
Down in Jungleland: Spot a Birder
The way you go about bird-watching reveals more about you than you would wish to.
Down in Jungleland: Part II: What Lies Beneath
Of first impressions and coloured perceptions in the animal world.
Down in Jungleland: What Lies Beneath
In the animal kingdom, the first impression is rarely the last one.
Down in Jungleland: Wing Games
Besides being game birds, grey francolins are also great fighters.
Down in Jungleland: The Passing of a Species
Great Indian Bustards slide into extinction.
Down in Jungleland: Notes from the neighbourhood
To observe nature, sometimes it's enough to look out the window.
Down in Jungleland: May the Best Man Win
In a peacock’s world, every body part, from the ornamental headdress to the train, plays a role.
Down in Jungleland: Mountain Rain
Raindrops in the hills make a melody, both quiet and clinky.
Down in jungleland – come into my parlour
Bribery, honey traps, illicit affairs — all’s fair when it comes to species propagation.
Down in Jungleland: Terms of Engagement
Bribing, entrapment and other underhand tactics of plants are all geared towards procreation.
Down in Jungleland: It’s the Babies, Stupid!
Why carnivores need hideouts, but herbivores wander free.
Top Spin: Why spiders are the master spinners of the natural world
Today, your average garden spider, sitting in her fabulous orb-web, can produce six different types of silk from the spinnerets (nozzles) at her rear end — depending on what she wants to use it for.
