If you watch birds for long enough (and even a few minutes every other day counts), you will quickly learn to tell them apart by their size and shape—and even more easily so by the colours they sport. Today, as we dive deeper and deeper into the digital world, we associate colours with their CMYK […]
Category: Books
All about figs – book review of ‘The Secret Garden’
Books on nature and wildlife for children set in the Indian context are few and far between, though in the last decade, there are several available. It has definitely improved since my childhood, when I read a lot about nature and wild species in far-off places but had very little to read on about Indian […]
In the interest of other animals
How should we as humans value and relate to other animals? When we use animals in research, in zoos and aquaria, as food items or body parts, as specimens or experimental models, as pets, as machismo-inflating trophies to be bagged, or just as objects for entertainment, do we fully understand their needs, their welfare, their […]