‘Diwali’ a nightmare for animals and birds
Diwali or Deepavali being India’s biggest Festival of Lights has now become one of the most discomforting festivals for animals.
Diwali or Deepavali being India’s biggest Festival of Lights has now become one of the most discomforting festivals for animals.
World Animal Day, celebrated on October 4th annually, serves as a platform to spotlight collective efforts directed towards animal well-being
Inter-services rivalry is a post-Independence problem, because the colonial administration could ensure that the military and the various components of bureaucracy worked in close co-ordination. Friction between members of services started building up soon after Independence to fill up the large number of senior posts that had fallen vacant after the exodus of British officers. Promotions, too, became much easier in the new regime
Regular showers assist in regulating their body temperatures. Fans have been installed in the reptiles' enclosures.
Fossilised traces of early animals - known as Ediacaran biota, multi-celled organisms that required oxygen - have been found in sedimentary rocks that are 541 to 635 million years old.
Other animals seeking to cross this Rubicon of parallel roads, such as chital or pig, just bolted across when they felt the coast was clear, but the elephants went about things very deliberately.
The old saying that two tigers cannot share a hill does not hold at Kanha National Park.
It does not matter which discredited industrialist’s interest Avni’s death was meant to serve but by allowing a humungous14,000 square kilometers of green cover to be shorn off over the last 30 years, India has clearly demonstrated the status of its commitment to the natural environment.
Meat is consumed on a massive scale across the world, with billions of animals killed every year.
With an increase in demand for veterinarians in various places, Veterinary science has become a popular choice among medical aspirants.