In the open forests and fields around Udaipur alone, other than the wildlife sanctuaries, the hare population is estimated to have dropped by a staggering 80%.
Udaipur, a globally familiar city of Rajasthan is also called the City of Lakes. Surrounded by the Aravalis, the oldest mountain range of the world, the city encloses three lakes. In the days of my c
In our residential compound at Panchwati, Udaipur in Rajasthan, there are seven resident snakes. Four of them were caught and identified as rat snakes (Ptyas mucosa). We marked them for identificatio
In our residential compound at Panchwati, Udaipur, in Rajasthan, there were seven resident snakes. Four of them were caught and identified as rat snakes (Ptyas mucosa). We marked them for identificat
There are many community roosting sites of Parakeets in Udaipur city, Rajasthan. In the morning, Parakeets fly away from the roosts towards the fields and orchards around Udaipur, returning to the ci
...yet several equally beautiful works of the Creator, rear species in the rich and varied fauna of India are threatened with complete extinction and the hand of no man can recreate them. No howl of
In 1960s, I lived in the forested hills of Aravallis (near Gogunda village in the district of Udaipur) looking after our mining operations. The area around my hut in Dholi Ghati abounded in snakes. I
A brief on the Nomads and how certain concentrated steps will drastically improve the conditions of nomads without much interference in their way of life.
It has been proved that Elephants communicate with their different groups by producing infrasonic sounds, which man cannot. Sub-terranean animals come out of their burrows just prior to an earthquake
My father, Mr. T. H. Tehsin, started big game hunting in the first quarter of this century when the animals were in abundance and ended it in early sixties when the jungles started depleting owing to
About 30 km from Udaipur there is a place called Dholi Ghati, situated in a valley. In the early fifties, this area was inaccessible by road and sparsely populated. Near Dholi Gahti, there were three
In the erstwhile Mewar state of Rajasthan, wild dogs were often encountered in the jungles and in the first half of this century they were in fairly good numbers. Mostly their area of operation was h