forest

forest · hills

Langurs run past our camera trip, into Oak forest in the western Himalaya

wildlife · forest

One of them seems sleepy while the second one indulges its sleepiness and allows it to continue. Monkey couple sitting high up in a tree and hugging each other.

Uttarakhand·forest

Best of Langurs jumping - slow motion footage! We filmed this otherwise ordinary subject at 400 frames per second - see them in action around Landour, Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·forest

Best of Langurs jumping - slow motion footage! We filmed this otherwise ordinary subject at 400 frames per second - see them in action around Landour, Mussoorie.

Landour, Uttarakhand·forest

Best of Langurs jumping - slow motion footage! We filmed this otherwise ordinary subject at 400 frames per second - see them in action around Landour, Mussoorie.

Karnataka·forest · wildlife

The Stripe-necked Mongoose is a species of mongoose found in southern India to Sri Lanka. The stripe-necked mongoose is the largest of the Asiatic mongooses. It has a stout body set on short legs.

Rajasthan·wildlife · forest

Sariska is probably one of the most visited parks in India. Unfortunately though, the main reason for this is not wildlife enthusiasm but only it's excellent proximity to some large towns like Delhi and Jaipur.

Sundarbans, West Bengal·wildlife · forest

The Sundarbans is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The Sundarbans is a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering parts of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat District in southwestern Bangladesh.

wildlife · forest

Many social animals groom each other, an activity known as social grooming, mutual grooming, or allo-grooming. Items removed during social grooming are identical to those removed by personal grooming.

street food · forest

Meat (pork / wild boar meat!) cooked in a bamboo in Arunachal Pradesh. They cut out the choicest pieces of cooking and place them within a hollow bamboo, sealing off the bamboo from the other end.

wildlife · forest

A Langur monkey being cooked for dinner in a bamboo wood fire in a remote tropical forest in Arunachal Pradesh, India. A group of tribal hunters are camped out in the forest, and this is their regular meal...

wildlife · forest

Otters or Ud bilao as they are known in Hindi, are reducing in number due to habitat loss! See these cute otters swim across a water channel. While the others rush across, one stays on and continues his feed on a fat fish.

Madhya Pradesh·birds · wildlife

A pair of Collared Scops Owl or Otus lettia in Bandhavgarh National Park... They remain alert even as they sleep in the daytime. The Collared Scops Owl is a common breeding bird in forests and other well-wooded areas.

Rajasthan·birds · forest

Thanks to Abhishek Gulshan, we now realize that this is probably the Indian Scops Owl, a new sub-species that is closely related to the Collared Scops Owl.

Rajasthan·birds · forest

A pair of Collared Scops Owl or Otus lettia in Bharatpur Bird sanctuary... The Collared Scops Owl is a common breeding bird in forests and other well-wooded areas. It nests in a hole in a tree, laying 3-5 eggs.

wildlife · forest

Forest officials bravely rescued a three-year-old leopard cub, the big cat fell in the well in Aambaliya village in Junagadh.

wildlife · forest

Panthera cutia! This baby leopard was found abandoned in the forest and taken in by the forest department, to try and make it survive without its mother. It can barely walk and even tries to make a wan attempt at growling.

forest

An Indian leopard or panther cub was found abandoned in the forest and taken into the care of the Forest Department in Assam.

forest · monsoon

Jungle Babblers and Golden Orioles call out in the verdant greenery of a monsoon forest in the ancient Aravalli range of Rajasthan, India. A panther or leopard sets about on the prowl, looking for Peafowl or other small prey.

wildlife · forest

The Indian Leopard has larger rosettes than the other subspecies, with a paler coat in desert habitats, greyer in colder climes and more ochre in rainforest habitats.

Kerala·wildlife · flowers

The panther or leopard is not a common sight in the Nilgiris and Western Ghats mountains around Munnar in Kerala.

wildlife · forest

An alert and suspicious leopard walks through the jungles of Jhalana in the search for its prey. The leopard walks around marking a prey, sitting waiting for the right time to prance. But leaves after waiting for a while.

wildlife · forest

In the growing darkness of the winter evening, the leopard's spots give it a good measure of camouflage in this scrub forest of Rajasthan where it is busily consuming its nilgai antelope prey, after a successful hunt.