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monsoon

A viewer tells us this could be a Cephonodes hylas (Sphingidae) or something very similar. We found this Hawk moth out one night after a heavy shower of monsoon rain, in New Delhi.

wildlife · monsoon

As a bevy of peafowl curiously peek in, a leopard sits near its kill, panting in the monsoon heat in a Rajasthan grassland. The peafowl know they are safe, as the leopard has food at hand, but their curiosity gets the better of them...

monsoon · river

Raneh Falls in muddy monsoon fury looks a beautiful yet frightening spectacle being enjoyed by many tourists visiting Panna National Park region in Madhya Pradesh.

monsoon · village

This archival footage presents a powerful and sobering view of severe monsoon flooding in the rural districts of Katihar, Bihar.

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Hardworking Indian farmers sowing rice crops ahead of monsoon in Uttar Pradesh, India. Uttar Pradesh is the fourth largest state in country.

farmland · hills

Rice paddies are cultivated in step cultivation form in the Himalaya. The rice fields are stepped down the hillside, with each field a foot or so lower so that the steepness of the hill is tamed and water can flow evenly from one field to t…

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With the arrival of the monsoon rains, the spore of Fungi embedded on the moist barks of huge trees start germinating and produces fungal growth commonly known as mushrooms.

Madhya Pradesh·monsoon · forest

A huge collaboration of Common grass-yellow butterflies turns this forest path into a mud-puddling frat party. Join in to this monsoon season frenzy as these butterflies celebrate India's season of bountiful rainfall.

river · monsoon

Driving from Wari Chora to Bagmara along the India-Bangladesh border, in Meghalaya's profuse monsoon rainy season.

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Deemak mahal pahari or termite hill in peak monsoon activity! A quick look and it looks like a dish boiling at high temperature but no. These are termites as seen in timelapse.

highway · monsoon

Avoid Minto Road in Delhi at all costs during the monsoon season if you drive a low-slung car! Even buses have been known to go under and get submerged at the underpass during heavy rains! This video shows just the start of the rainy excess…

monsoon · highway

Green and yellow auto rickshaws line up in the flooded mess, as they try and negotiate Minto Bridge underpass.

monsoon · river

Out of the 51 districts in Madhya Pradesh, 23 are flooded while in total 33 have received above average rainfall.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · forest

At the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical gardens and wildlife sanctuary, the monsoon has been profuse this July, in 2019. The ferns, wild Himalayan pear tree, fig leaves and deodar needles all sport drops of rain water.

monsoon

A dystopian movie scene in Hollywood or a thriller and a romantic scene in Bollywood, that is what Moti Bagh in Delhi looks like in one of the heavy rainfall days after the monsoons arrived in North India.

farmland · monsoon

The stark green-ness of this post monsoon profusion of rice paddies in the fields outside Vangani town in Maharashtra shows the verdant moist nature of the flanks of the Western Ghats and their amenity to agriculture, especially water-greed…

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The rains have ditched Delhi this June-July monsoon season, but some parts like Old Delhi have received their share of a drenching in a strange bit of weather pattern arbitrariness!

Madhya Pradesh·river · monsoon

The Ken River's excessive monsoon flow has consumed a 100 foot high waterfall by turning it into a cascading torrent instead, as the chasm is full of flowing water.

forest · monsoon

This unsettling footage documents an intense encounter with blood-sucking land leeches (Class: Hirudinea), commonly found in humid forest ecosystems during the monsoon season.

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Indian Peafowl mopes around in post monsoon slump after breeding season high gets over! The peacock uses his time to sun-bathe and generally hang around in the grass, preening and grooming itself.

Rajasthan·monsoon · river

The dry craggy hills around Udaipur lead up to a hill top with the fabled Sajjan Garh Palace sitting atop it, as sen aerially, in this aerial view of the fort.

Rajasthan·river · monsoon

The dry craggy hills around Udaipur lead up to a hill top with the fabled Sajjan Garh Palace sitting atop it, as sen aerially, in this aerial view of the fort.

Uttarakhand·forest · monsoon

Male and Female Kaleej / Kalij Pheasant seen in monsoon greenery around Mussoorie, at the end of the breeding season, when chicks have been born and have become independent.

Uttarakhand·river · railway

Filmed during the infamous Maund Mela or Fish killing festival, the Aglar river joins the Jumna nadi below the Yamuna pul. The Yamuna jumps over rocks and gurgles down from Yamunotri, rather uncelebrated, as opposed to the Ganga.