A walk in the forest – Part 2
Continued from Part 1
We heard the langurs give their alarm call and saw the sambhur do the same. This tells us in quite a straight forward manner that it was in reaction to the ... Read more
Author: Ruvinda De Mel
A walk in the forest – Part 1
Nearly two decades ago I was taken on my first ever walk in a forest by a man who was born in 1875, roamed the jungles of the Himalayan foothills during the early 1900s and died in 1955. He achieved this feat through his books that recounted the ... Read more
The suffering of innocence
I do not write this for myself. Nor do I write this for you.
It was yet another day during my undergrad research period. I had left home early and reached my destination in the southern province where I was to observe a group of captive elephants. As I had ... Read more
Bears the good natured ones (Part 2)
Continued from part 1...
The moment I laid eyes on my friend; mouth open, eyes wide and frantically waving at me, I knew something was very wrong. Initially I thought he was afraid my ... Read more
Bears: the good natured ones (Part 1)
The fateful walk (Pic credit: Amila Sumanapala)
Some Sri Lankans have a paralyzing fear of sloth bears. Others, like myself, are mesmerized by them. The majority are unaware that Sri Lanka is home to a species of ... Read more