Jan 032012
 
Garole Sheep – Bi-annual lambing

Garole, a precious sheep breed from West Bengal an eastern province of India, is having some outstanding genetic potentiality such as high fecundity and lambing frequency. Its prolificacy, lambing frequency, disease resistance and other extraordinary merits is rarely observed in any other sheep breeds of the world. Garole Sheep Garole weighs around 12-15Kgs in adult, It

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Dec 282011
 
Jayamangali Black Buck Reserve – Maidanahalli

Jayamangali Black Buck Reserve was a long pending trip on my wishlist. Day just came as Deepa Mohan initiated a day trip & I confirmed immediately. Jayamangali (formerly called as Maidanahalli) is in Madhugiri taluk, Tumkur district of Karnataka. This place is appox 140Kms from Bangalore where availability of food & drinking water is absolutely

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Nov 232011
 

  This little insectivorous plant is found growing in muddy edges of ponds, bogs and rivers, where the soil is peaty.It is a small herbaceous, perennial, aquatic plant, with short and slender fibrous root. Their leaves are orbicular on long stalks, depressed, Iying flat on ground and have on upper surface long red viscid hairs,

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Sep 072011
 

I saw something crawling near the stone bench at my backyard, it was a bat!!! first I thought it was a fruit bat which is usually seen near my home. We have a mango tree & also a fig & silk cotton tree 300Mtrs away from my home. So, fruit bats are usual & sometimes

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Aug 032011
 
Ant Mimicry-2

Ants are particularly good animals to mimic, (Yes its an animal , it belongs to Insecta Class, Anthropoda Phylum,  Kingdom Animalia) Firstly because they available in large numbers & they are distasteful to many other animals or dangerous to eat. So by looking like an ant, the spider mimic is less likely to be noticed

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Jul 282011
 

Prakruti Creations led by Mr.B.Srinivas & Mr.H.V.Praveen Kumar both from YPS Bangalore arranged a 3Day Nature Photography Workshop at Bandipur  Karnataka from 21st-23rd July 2011 & stay was at the very best Jungle Lodges Bandipur 🙂 . We all left Bangalore at 6:30 in morning, had breakfast at Ramanagara & reached JLR campus at around

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Jul 142011
 
Brahminy Blind Snake

Today  I was mending some flowerpots in my backyard as recent rain had destroyed newly grown flowering plants, While emptying a flowerpot I saw a strange worm, approximately around 4 Cms long. At first I thought that it was a earthworm & wanted it to be in the same pot as they keep the soil

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Jul 032011
 

  All small shrine is maintained at ARRS Campus where Snake god (Nagappa – in kannada) is worshipped King Cobra -Female Malabar Pit Viper. Green Vine Snake. Hill Keelback (Shredding time so the eyes looks blurred with the extra skin covered) Calotes Calotes Cicada. Mayfly. Giant Stick Insect Fulgoridae | Kalidasa nigromaculata Cricket Insect Damselfly

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Jul 022011
 

Agumbe has many species of amphibians & I always wanted to photograph the charismatic Malabar Flying Frog & Draco (Malabar flying lizard), unfortunately i dint get any photos of Dracos as it usually comes out during sunshine but our three days were wet & pouring :). Malabar Gliding Frog (Rhacophorus malabaricus) Amboli Bush Frog Leaping

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Jul 022011
 

It was a three day photography tour at Agumbe, the first day ended up meeting & rescuing the King. Second & third day was full of life as we found many species of Insects, Amphibians & Snakes . Agumbe rain forest is the perfect example for bio-diversity & is alive every minute, I would say

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