Hunger games
That chippy sound I’m hearing right now outside our ground-floor Mumbai home? It’s a Purple Sunbird doing what it does best… stealing nectar from flowers.
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Author: Bittu Sahgal
What a wonderful world!
One of Mumbai’s inveterate naturalists, Yogesh Chavan, found 42 exquisitely arranged salmon Arab butterfly caterpillars on a single meswak leaf.
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In our hands
The hand on this page belongs to a lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus, found nowhere else but India’s Western Ghats. Handsome beyond description, this monkey from Valparai has much more going for it than mere good looks.
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Meet Dia Mirza — Actor, Activist, Nature Worshipper
Part of the Sanctuary family since 2013, and the face of the Leave Me Alone campaign, actor Dia Mirza is evolving into a key public opinion mover and champion for India’s wilds. BITTU SAHGAL speaks with her on what moves her and why.
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Keeping old flames alive
As mysterious as they are beautiful, the six flamingo species known to man have fascinated artists and scientists in equal measure down the ages.
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