by Thomas | Sep 27, 2020 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
On this safari in the Serengeti National Park, there was some chatter coming over the wireless and Eric, our guide and driver, pointed out that a herd of African Lions were seen, not far away from where we were. We decided to check them out. When we reached the...
by Thomas | Sep 13, 2020 | Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha, Places
The beautiful and enchanting Sal forests of Kanha National Park make it one of the most picturesque National Parks of India. The feature picture above shows tourists headed into the park for a jeep safari. These Sal forests are home to the endangered Barasingha and...
by Thomas | Aug 30, 2020 | Animals, Bandipur, Endangered Species, Featured, India, South India
How may of us who have visited Indian Forests have seen a Chital (Spotted Deer) or for that matter a Ruddy Mongoose. The resounding answer would be all of us. However if we check the same audience, as to whether they have seen a sub-adult Chital suckling its mother or...
by Thomas | Aug 23, 2020 | Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha
If we haven’t said this many times over, then we are not doing justice to Kanha National Park – it is truly the land of the Barasingha. It’s called Barasingha because its antler has 12-tips and in the local language, ‘Barah’ means 12 and...
by Thomas | Aug 16, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
After the incredibly exciting start to our morning in Serengeti National Park- checkout our earlier posts on the Lioness carrying new-born cubs, we headed deeper into the park. We stopped to observe a courting pair of Black-bellied Bustard and they surprised us with a...
by Thomas | Aug 9, 2020 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
This is the second part (you can read the first part here) of the sighting of the anxious sub-adult Tigress that we spotted in Kabini. When her calls weren’t answered by either her mother or siblings, the Tigress finally got up and walked off in the direction of...
by Thomas | Aug 2, 2020 | Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha
In the earlier post, when we described the sighting of the Tigress with a cub in Kanha National Park, we mentioned the Barasingha, whose distress calls led us to the Tiger. We decided to dedicate a full post to that incredible experience of observing a Barasingha in...
by Thomas | Jul 26, 2020 | Africa, Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, Serengeti, Tanzania
The Lioness that we spotted carrying her new born cubs in Serengeti National Park, finally emerged from the tall grass and walked upto our jeep with her other cub in tow. As he came out of the tall grass, we took our first clear picture of the new born cub. She put...
by Thomas | Jul 19, 2020 | Animals, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Nagarhole, South India
This was our last safari of this particular visit to Kabini and we hoped to catch a glimpse of a Tiger. Our wishes were granted in abundance when we sighted a sub-adult Tigress sitting next to a tree. It was clear that she was missing her mother and her two siblings....
by Thomas | Jul 12, 2020 | Animals, Central India, Endangered Species, Featured, India, Kanha
We were on an afternoon safari in Kanha National Park when we saw a Barasingha grazing in a waterhole. I was wondering how would a distress call of a Barasingha sound and enquired with the guide. With the guide describing how the distress call would sound, we drove...
