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This book traces the ancestry of the rhino down the ages, the various legends – including the spurious ones about the medicinal properties of its body parts – around the rhino, and the latest status of its abodes around the world. This book provides rare insights into the rhino's endangerment and suggests concrete conservation measures on how the animal can be saved. There is a heart-warming account of how an abandoned calf was lovingly nurtured and ...
The National and State Animals of India and their Conservation Status: Indian government has adopted the Bengal Tiger as National animal and all the 29 States and Union territories have also adopted specific animal as their state animal. India has diverse ecosystems including Ramsar Sites and landscapes. The large mammals and other animals are also important for wildlife tourism in India. The book describes all these aspects. The book consists of 30 chapters, ...
The Wild Pack is a band of animals living in abandoned rail tunnels and caves under the city. Led by the wolf Hamlet, they have just one goal: to live in freedom as they once did in the wild.
Following Hamlet's dramatic escape from the zoo, this sequel finds the Wild Pack outsmarting humans time and again, even sneaking into the city's natural history museum in the dead of night, on a quest to discover where they are from. But there they are faced with the cruel ...
As urbanization sprawls into natural areas, the traditional space for wildlife is diminishing. At the same time, in very unique ways the urban is accommodating certain species of plant and animals. Can it be that in future the urban and natural will be one integrated unit? The book explores briefly a few critical aspects towards this vision. The novel and often incidental urban-wild arrangements, natural capacity to adapt and human-animal politics are discussed ...
Vijay Mane has worked for over six years on The Best of Indian Wildlife, going through thousands of photographs, and carefully and lovingly compiling the best of them into a coffee table book that is awe-inspiring in its magnitude and scope. Featuring the work of almost 50 dedicated wildlife photographers, including some of the best names in the field such as Dhritiman Mukherjee, Jagdeep Rajput, Manoj Sindagi, Niranjan Sant, Sachin Rai, T.N.A. Perumal, as well as ...
Feed and seed are the major inputs in any aquaculture enterprises. This “Practical Manual on Fish Nutrition and Feed Technology” is written as per syllabus of B.F.Sc. prescribed by ICAR, New Delhi. This manual contains 19 chapters. This practical manual provides an ideal text for better understanding of evaluation of aqua feeds and feed formation methods.
This book is an essential text for the students, teachers and researchers working in the field of ...
An important, throughly illustrated, and exhaustive work that lists, classifies and describes all the known fish fauna of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
"Offers a systematic enumeration of the entire range of fishes under two broad classes - Elasmobranchii and Teleostomi 28 different orders, various sub-orders and families, and over 800 species. All the necessary details and data have been provided for each of the species under its description. And for an easier ...
Tigers don’t talk (well, at least not in ‘people’ language). Tigers don’t have names either. But then T-Cub is a very special tiger cub and he wants to tell you his story. It’s about his life in a forest in India, and his animal friends (and foes) including monkeys, peacocks and elephants.
T-Cub is naughty, curious, lovable and brave (and sometimes scared too!). He is living the good life of a wild tiger—prowling the forest, ...
A dramatic encounter with a belligerent tiger a near-death experience, hunting for missing tigers, a mystifying leopard who attacks humans at will with no fear, tracking and monitoring tigers and the fascinating story of an aggressive male tiger. These and other true-life tales form part of my encounter with the big cat and other adventures in Ranthambhore. The author also pays tribute to the unsung heroes of Ranthambhore who gave up their lives and livelihood ...
What is common between a royal Bengal tiger, a lotus, a mango, and the Ashok Chakra? All of these are symbols linked to the Indian identity and heritage. If you have ever had a chance to see the majestic royal Bengal tiger, you must have admired its grace, power, and strength. For these very qualities, it has been chosen as the national animal of India. A colourful peacock dancing in the rain looks breathtakingly beautiful. Do you know that this pretty creature ...
Forests are valued for many different things; they are the home of indigenous people, reserves of medicinal plants, support a high biodiversity, and provide ecosystem services such as protection from erosion, landslides, storms, tidal surges and wave action. Mangrove forests provide many products of commercial value (fin fish, shell fish, honey, timber, fodder etc.). Additionally, forests sequester carbon, which is another good reason to conserve them. This book ...
Gentle in disposition, fierce in battle and beloved in festivals, across time, India's elephants have been synonymous with the ceremonial pomp of royalty as well as symbols of strength, production and majesty. Elephants have inspired idioms and games and have captured our fancy as evident in ancient temple architecture as well as Mughal miniatures. in India's Elephants: A Cultural Legacy, Tripti Pandey explores our fascination with this impressive creature, ...
This book covers every aspect of the Asiatic Lion, including the past and the present status, and likely future scenario, and also contains an account of about the decade’s of the author’s observations in the Gir Forest. The Management and conservation of the Gir Forests and the Lion during the last five decades, which has made Gir one of the best managed protected Areas in the world, have been summarized. The author has also extracted information ...
Shivang Mehta, author of A Decade With Tigers: Supremacy, solitude, Stripes won the YES BANK Natural Capital Awards 2017: Pixel Perfect Award for a photograph included in the book published by Niyogi Books.
The book is a unique tribute to the tigers who have played a vital role as ‘brand ambassadors’ of Indian wildlife. The volume chronicles legendary tiger mothers and male tigers of the past decade, as well as their tales of survival, complemented by ...
Ranthambhore is a dry, decidous, thorn forest that sits at the junction of the Aravalli and Vindhya hills, Rajasthan, India. Knows for its amazing and uplifting combination of heritage – natural and historical – which interminlges with its forests, Ranthambhore is home to a diverse range of flora and fauna. Within its nearly 1400-square kilometre area, Ranthambhore National Park and its critical tiger habitat provides for one of the finest areas for ...
Almost everyone on safari hopes for a glimpse of the charismatic and elusive leopard.
This classic account tells the story of the mother leopard as a solitary hunter providing for herself and her offspring. Chui was the first of a generation of leopards Jonathan Scott watched and photographed in Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve in the 1970s and 1980s. He spent every available moment watching and photographing her and her cubs, Light and Dark, aware that he ...