Bittu Sahgal

Silent strength

20th February 201925th February 2019 Bittu Sahgal Himalayas, Lion-tailed Macaque, monkey, nature, Western Ghats

If you travelled the world in search of this handsome wild monkey, you would be forced to come right back to the evergreen forests of south-west India’s Western Ghats to breathe the air it breathes.

Going Green

Last and final call

1st November 201820th February 2019 Bittu Sahgal amphibians, frogs, herpetology, Western Ghats

I adore frogs. All frogs, not just this exquisite Western Ghats Rhacophorus photographed by Sunil Sachi in a Chikmagalur coffee plantation.

Going Green

Hunger games

11th October 201811th October 2018 Bittu Sahgal sunbird

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.

Going Green

What a wonderful world!

21st August 201822nd August 2018 Bittu Sahgal caterpillars, Mumbai

One of Mumbai’s inveterate naturalists, Yogesh Chavan, found 42 exquisitely arranged salmon Arab butterfly caterpillars on a single meswak leaf.

Going Green

In our hands

27th April 2018 Bittu Sahgal India, Lion-tailed Macaque, primates, Valparai, Western Ghats

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.