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wildlife · forest

The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is an antelope species native to the Indian Subcontinent that has been classified as near threatened by IUCN since 2003, as the blackbuck range has decreased sharply during the 20th century.

Meghalaya·wildlife · hills

The chestnut tiger, common nawab, red helen, cruiser, common mime, plain tiger, large silverstripe, stripped blue crow, spotted sawtooth, the common grass yellow, painted lady, checkered white and other butterflies on display at Wankhar Mem…

flowers · hills

Great Blackvein butterfly feeding on flowering Aesculus or Horse Chestnut nectar. The Wanderer butterflies were to be seen in great profusion on the flowering Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) trees and everything was warm, happy and well in…

hills · forest

The Oakleaf butterfly is sheer magic! The closed wings look like a staticdry brown oak leaf but when they open, it is a different world of colour and magic...

Uttarakhand·monsoon · forest

Incredible shots of a really stunning and colourful Indian Red Admiral (Vanessa indica) butterfly and a common sailor butterfly sitting on wild cherry blossoms. A common species from hilly regions of the country.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · forest

We start with a stunning Glassy Tiger, (Tirumala limniace exoticus) followed by a common punch (Dodona durga) 3 other unidentified butterflies in Ladour.

forest

A group of common grass yellow butterflies (Eurema hecabe) mud puddles on damp soil for minerals on a forest track. The females fly around with the singular aim of looking for nectar.

Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand·forest

Watch close-ups of a beautiful Indian Fritillary butterfly, Common Punch and Indian Red Admiral as seen at our Wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Jabbarkhet in the Himalaya.

river · forest

The red-base jezebel butterfly (Delias pasithoe) is found from Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh, the hills of the Northeast of India. It flies from lower hills to 2,100m from February to March and July to December.

hills · forest

Tortoiseshell Butterfly suns itself, wings outspread and quivering in order to dry them. This leads us to the next thought - Has it just been born? That would explain the quivering and the perfect wing condition! Seen at the wildfilmsindia…

forest · hills

Papilio arcturus or Blue (not Common Peacock) Peacock. Filmed at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himlaya.

river · forest

A mud-puddling Neozephyrus japonica butterfly in Nagaland, as it sits on moist muddy ground near a forest stream in the middle of a forest area in Nagaland, India.

forest · river

Not a Dingy Bushbrown butterfly in Nagaland. It has five spots on the wings. But is this even the Dingy Bushbrown butterfly? Help us confirm the identification of this butterfly that we filmed beside a stream in a forest area outside a vill…

river · forest

Common Mormon, Rose Windmill and Spangle butterflies. Papilio protenor (Cramer?) Female and male Mormons sit by a beautiful forest stream, in the wet sand, for mud puddling to collect nutrients from the soil.

river · forest

Chocolate Pansy (Junonia iphita) Common Evening Brown (Melanitis leda) Common Evening Brown, Chocolate Pansy and Dark evening brown butterflies as seen beside a lovely forest stream in Nagaland, in the moist undergrowth.

Madhya Pradesh·river · forest

Thick plateau forests as far as the eye can see: Greenery of central India is unmatchable: Panna is due to have large segments of these forests inundated and destroyed due to the Ken-Betwa River Interlinking project.

forest · hills

Nagaland is a state in the far north-eastern part of India. It borders the state of Assam to the west, Arunachal Pradesh and part of Assam to the north, Burma to the east and Manipur to the south.

dance · village

Dancers and musicians of Siddhi village. The Siddhi, also known as Habshi, are an Indian and Pakistani ethnic group of Black African and/or Afro-Arab descent.

forest · wildlife

Python eggs hatched under human protection in Manas National Park, Assam. See a huge forest scorpion in Assam, too! Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is a National Park, UNESCO Natural World Heritage site, a Project Tiger Rese…

forest · river

Baby Pythons hatching from their eggs at Manas National Park, Assam. The Pythonidae, commonly known simply as pythons, from the Greek word python, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia and Australia.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · wildlife

Indian rock python resting in shallow water at Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh. Python molurus is a large nonvenomous python species found in many tropic and subtropic areas of Southern and Southeast Asia.

forest · river

Rescuers collecting Python snakelets from their temporary living space in the thick jungles of Assam, India.

Maharashtra·river · forest

An eight-feet-long python was found inside a car's bonnet on in Panvel. The car was parked in ONGC employees' colony. The owner of the car was trying to start the car but couldn't.