The endangered lion-tailed macaques of the Western Ghats carry roughly twice as many kinds of parasite when they live beside human settlements, many of them species that normally infect cattle, and researchers think the burden may be one reason so few young macaques survive in the region’s shrinking forest patches.
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A man-made reservoir built 68 years ago for the residents of a planned city has been recognised as a wetland of international importance, even though silt has taken more than half of its water-holding capacity.
Young gharials appear to take their cue to start basking each morning from the light in the sky, a finding that raises questions about what artificial light along riverbanks does to a species with a recovery score of just 19 per cent.
Nearly every form of the goddess worshipped through Navratri comes with an animal, from lions and a tiger to a bull and a donkey, and several of those animals still live in India’s forests, wetlands and deserts.
Sloth bears, which live mostly on ants, termites and fruit, appear to have been digging snakes out of the forest floor, in what may be the first record of the species hunting that prey.
Wildlife SOS says its co-founder and CEO Kartick Satyanarayan has now spent roughly 34 hours under questioning by […]
A hyena has been sighted in Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve for the first time in recent years, an animal that had been feared lost from the reserve altogether.
The first scientific survey of snow leopards in Jammu and Kashmir has found at least 21 adults, giving conservationists a count to monitor the cat against in future.
A cheetah cub has died in Madhya Pradesh, the seventh cheetah death in India this year, and a request for the post-mortem reports on every cheetah lost since the reintroduction began has just been turned down on grounds of national security.
An ancient shadow-puppet tradition that usually retells the epics has been handed a fish as its hero, in an effort to get schoolchildren thinking about how to protect the largest fish on Earth.