It's a snail eat snail kind of world!
Something very sinister was happening on the shores of Odisha! A snail was caught attacking its own family!
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Six-legged mermaids
Find out how several species of aquatic beetles live together in a single pond.
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Birds, Trees and the Narcondam Islands
Organisation of plant-seed disperser community on an Island in absence of regular small birds
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What’s so fatal about being a silent female katydid?
Researchers studied bat predation of katydids to know if signalling males are more prone to predators than non-signalling females
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Bengal Florican: an elusive birds’ disappearing act
Critically endangered Bengal Florican is spotted in the breeding season, but where does it go in the non breeding season?
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Why could different forms (morphs) of males evolve together? The red deer example.
Males of red deer can be with or without antlers. Such males in multiple morphs are found in insects like beetles. We ask "WHY?" "HOW!?"
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Why do male Peninsular rock lizards change colour?!
Male peninsular rock lizards change colour to convey information to other individuals. But why is it important to 'change' colour?!
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Fan throated lizards: why have so many colours!?
Males of fan throated lizards develop beautiful blue, black and orange colours just before the breeding season. We know that these...
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What do eagle owls eat? How is owl diet studied?
Owls hunt for their prey, seize them and carry off. They are nocturnal with terrific binocular vision, hook-tipped beaks and sharp curved...
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Tweeting in different dialects
What can happen to bird songs if populations of same bird species stop interacting with each other?
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Survival Tricks
Seed dispersal has always proven to be advantageous for plants to reduce competition and inbreeding. This mechanism results in much...
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Many Ways to Show-Off
Males communicate using various body movements and by changing body colour within seconds! But why have so many different signals?
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Can having predators around be beneficial for animals!?
The way animals react to their predators does not have a fixed set of rules. However, we will expect that an animal should always try and...
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Migration, genes and blackcap birds!
Hybrids of blackcap birds flying in opposite directions take the intermediate direction of migration!
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Our very own Nemo - a sex-changing fish!
Most of us would have seen ‘Finding Nemo’ and absolutely loved it, for all the right reasons. However, if the movie was to be...
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Males which'sneak in' to mate!
Check the 105 second video to find out how the 'not-so-good' males of some frogs and toads increase chances of finding mates!
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Nest-building, snake eating kings!
Nest building, snake eating King Cobra females save their babies from themselves!!!!
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Why are Asian elephants being born tuskless!?
Did you know that as many as 5-90% elephants of a population in India can be tuskless? Then why do elephants even have tusks? Check out the
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Brutal, brutal meerkat mothers...
Meerkats are mongooses which stay in closely bonded groups. How is it then, that one female gives birth to almost 80% pups in the group!?
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Fission-fusion systems and giraffes
Animals temporarily split into smaller groups to avoid costs of living in groups!
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