Cage the abusers

In battery cages, egg-laying hens are suffocated, debeaked and injected with antibiotics. Their only hope lies with the Delhi High Court, which …

Officials shed crocodile tears

Crocodiles today abound in captive breeding centres in India. But the government still applies to them a protection law that was relevant two …

Sexual distinction

A new technique enables the determination of the sex of cattle and goats at the embryonic stage

Tahr breeding season

Domesti(cat)ed?

Domestic cat gives birth to a wild one, raises hopes of bringing back extinct species

THAILAND

Wild disruption

Even low concentrations of pollutants can alter animal behaviour

Appearances can be deceptive

Desertification in India: A livestock keeper says how his stock has plummeted

‘I dream of gardens in the desert sand, I wake in vain’

Tiger farming controversy must not be framed in moral terms

Unhearthed

Human encroachment has created imbalance in the avian ecology. Better management practices are needed for the conservation of species diversity

Pygmy hog thrives

Sri Lanka's Tree Frogs

ANIMAL TESTING

COVID-19 calls for a thoughtful appraisal about humanity’s equation with animals

Animals in captivity in zoos, circuses and other facilities, should be given humane treatment, should not be bred indiscriminately and should be …

35 crocodile nests seen in Odisha’s Bhitarkanika National Park

Bhitarkanika, a vast tract of forest and saltwater swamp, is home to at least 1,742 salt water crocodiles

How cow became the mother of demigods

The current political discourse on cow protection disregards the history of beef eating in India

"It happened by sheer accident"

More great discoveries in the realm of science get stumbled upon by the unprepared mind than untangled by methodical research. dna fingerprinting,…

Royal deaths

Was the real killer an infection or negligence?

Tiger farming: India debates China experiment

Blame's on chimps

Disappearing Act

Only special breeding programmes and creation of corridors can save the lion-tailed macaque from extinction

Losing signals

Breed basket

Even when it comes to dogs, we still haven't got over the colonial hangover. We import breeds and give them English names. Rajat Ghai speaks to S …

Fewer ribbits in Western Ghats? Erratic, deficit rainfall hits breeding cycles of frogs

Researchers say amphibians are not getting enough time to complete the breeding cycles, eggs drying out early