Tag: Animals

In a viral video shared by Senior IFS officer Susanta Nanda on the micro-blogging platform Twitter, netizens are awestruck by a sloth bear’s craze for honey.

Reports have come from Ukraine of people refusing to leave without their companion animals and travelled great distances facing the bitter cold and risks of war carrying their pets, sometimes even in their arms, trying to find a safe route out.

Sonepur: Six wild boars fell into a well near Khaliapali village in Sonepur today. They were rescued later with the help of villagers and forest officials. According to sources, the animals had come from Murgabari forest to graze crops in the area where the incident took place. Earlier, after getting information from the villagers, forest […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Twin City denizens taking more interest in keeping pets in their homes, there is a growing demand for pet care facilities. Despite being home to a good veterinary college, Bhubaneswar lacked proper healthcare for the pets in the past. Meet Jasmeet Singh, a young man from a small border town of RS […]

Bengaluru: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah for likening opposition parties to animals, which is disrespectful to all Indians. “Calling the opposition parties animals exposes Shah’s mentality and reflects the vision of the BJP and its parent organisation RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh). It’s disrespectful to all […]

London: Giving fresh insights into how certain animals can quickly heal themselves, a study reveals that starfish are able to squeeze foreign bodies along the length of their body cavities and out through their arm tips. The two biology students from University of Southern Denmark have found a strange behaviour in starfish that was never […]

Unaware of the deadly consequences faced by the wildlife despite coming across horrific stories of loads of plastic items and other indisposable items being removed from the stomachs of animals, most of us are least concerned everytime we dispose non–recyclable waste from our households. A Twitter user recently posted a picture of a deer standing […]

Mayurbhanj: The Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district will remain closed to tourists from June 16 in view of the monsoon, officials said Monday. The date of reopening of the STR and sanctuary will be notified later after the monsoon ends, a press release issued by STR authorities said. The closure of the […]

San Francisco:  In an initiative for better wildlife protection, seven organizations, led by Conservation International and Google has mapped more than 4.5 million animals in the wild using photos taken from motion-activated cameras known as camera traps. The photos are all part of Wildlife Insights, an AI-enabled, Google Cloud-based platform that streamlines conservation monitoring by speeding […]