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Ramya Coushik
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The plaintive cry of the lovesick songster
The calls of the lovesick male common hawk-cuckoos echo across the fields in summer, their peak mating season. Mercifully, unlike the male, the female isn’t ‘possessed’ and gets by with grating noises for calls.
30 June 2024, 03:56 IST
The plaintive cry of the lovesick songster
30 June 2024, 03:56 IST
Healing a ravaged landscape in India
What are we doing to meet the challenge of land degradation neutrality and other climate change goals? Ramya Coushik gives a lowdown.
07 June 2024, 21:42 IST
Healing a ravaged landscape in India
07 June 2024, 21:42 IST
Fluffy bundle of paradoxes
If there was a lord of loud and shrill callers at Navilu Kaadu, then the grey francolin (Ortygornis pondicerianus) would be that lord.
19 May 2024, 02:56 IST
Fluffy bundle of paradoxes
19 May 2024, 02:56 IST
The solitary signaller of dusk
This ‘marble plopper’ is our resident Indian Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus), a crepuscular, nocturnal ground bird. Crepuscular beings are active at twilight.
28 April 2024, 02:49 IST
The solitary signaller of dusk
28 April 2024, 02:49 IST
Belligerence in a drum
When spring arrives, the brand-new queens emerge from hibernation to find their colonies, and so turns the grand wheel of a paper wasp’s life.
14 March 2024, 04:19 IST
Belligerence in a drum
14 March 2024, 04:19 IST
All that glitters disappears
Jewel beetles belong to Buprestidae, among the largest beetle families with over 15,500 known species. Cultures worldwide have coveted the cerulean, amaranthine, and teal elytra of the jewel beetle in religion and adornment.
13 January 2024, 23:21 IST
All that glitters disappears
13 January 2024, 23:21 IST
Bug in a bubble wrap
Scientists have also discovered that spittlebug nymphs excrete 150 to 280 times liquid their own body weight every day. For a human weighing about 68 kg, that would be over 12,000 litres a day!
25 November 2023, 23:25 IST
Bug in a bubble wrap
25 November 2023, 23:25 IST
The pact between wasp and fig
Hindu mythology appositely honours the banyan as the wish-fulfilling tree, exemplifying eternal life.
07 October 2023, 23:29 IST
The pact between wasp and fig
07 October 2023, 23:29 IST
Tracking the farmers of the forest
Among India’s nine hornbill species, the Indian grey hornbills inhabit the plains and thrive in city canopies, underpinning the crucial role of native fruiting avenue trees in urban areas.
20 August 2023, 03:47 IST
Tracking the farmers of the forest
20 August 2023, 03:47 IST
A bag full of twisty secrets!
Ramya Coushik writes about the incredibly creative little architects of nature, the bagworm moths.
01 August 2023, 09:31 IST
A bag full of twisty secrets!
01 August 2023, 09:31 IST
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