The cramp in my leg started to bother me and I moved a little to make it better. I had been quietly squirming in this fashion for over an hour, crouched on a too-thin tree perch. As I contemplated my next move, the first pup stumbled out of the den.

Dusk was falling fast, and a group of us were driving through the edges of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, when we heard a gunshot. We turned and sped in the direction of the noise, looked around in the scrub, but saw nothing. At the next forest post, we registered a complaint and stuck around till they sent messages on walkie-talkies to guards in the area.

Bizarre, colourful and completely over-the-top, let’s meet the shy and elusive creatures that live at the bottom of the earth’s oceans

Have you ever wondered what lives at the bottom of the deep blue seas? The earth’s oceans cover over 75% of its surface, and have trenches (like the Mariana trench) that are deeper than the Himalayas are high.

Find out what honeybees and spiders have to do with hexagons and symmetry

Geometry is much more than the mathematical formulae we learn in school. In reality, it is all around us, even in nature. The geometry of the natural world can be beautiful, surprising, and at times, sinister. Here’s how.

After I finished my higher studies, I stumbled upon a chance to study bottlenose dolphins at the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) in Scotland. My workplace was set in a village called Spey Bay. It was surrounded by farms on the east, the North Sea on the north and the estuary (a coastal water body where both river water and seawater flow in) of River Spey on the west. The estuary attracted a whole lot of marine wildlife starting with migrating salmon, seals and dolphins that came to feed on the salmon and a host of estuarine and terrestrial birds. Every sunset was a special one, filled with a flurry of animal activity.