We love theme photography, and one of our themes are the street artists of Italy.
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We all have a natural tendency to associate nature, wilderness and the animal kingdom with those at the larger end of the spectrum, like lions, tigers, antelopes, and those of the kind we often see at the zoos. Of course, these all are a part of nature. Nevertheless, at the sametime, many of us rarely stop by and watch the spectacles and stories of nature at the smaller end of the spectrum. We will open our mouth :-o  and watch an elephant passing by, but rarely would we stop to watch an insect or even a bird flying by.
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In the recent articles we talked about tactics from the snakes, spiders, birds and others for survival, and for saving their offspring.  In the picture below, you can see a skink (kind of lizards) mimicking the pose and the features of a snake, when it saw that I found him. It not only gave that pose, but put forth its forked tongue, like a snake! Continue Reading »

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A few decades back, Onam, the Kerala festival was celebrated in memory of the mythical king Mahabali. In the present scenario, it has turned out that Onam is more of a celebration in memory of those bygone decades and onam celebrations of the past.
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We discovered this snake from under the ground while digging, the same time when this species was being named. That is, it was not known that such a species existed, taxonomically. It was in 2007 that we first found it, and it was the same year that David Gower and Jasmin Winkler from the Natural History Museum, London, published about the new species in a scientific journal.
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