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What Causes a Sea Turtle to be a Female or a Male?
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How do Trees Practice Social Distancing?
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Has Anyone ever seen a Malabar Civet?
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Does India have a Healthy Population of Himalayan Brown Bear?
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What is the difference between extinct and extinct in the wild?
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Why do Snow Leopards have such a Long Tail?
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#FridayFrogFact – Are There Any Poisonous Frogs In India?
This is a guest post by Madhushri Mudke from GirlGoneBirdzz.com The Poison Dart Frogs are the deadliest frogs in the world. When the poison from a Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) is rubbed on an arrow head and shot at a monkey high up in the canopy – the monkey falls straight down. Natives living […]
Why Do Whales Leap In The Air
Whales, the world over have been observed to leap into the air and crash back into the water, slapping their tails and fins as they touch the water. This behaviour of whales is called breaching. Clearly, it requires a lot of energy and is observed when whales migrate and are fasting. Scientists therefore inferred that […]
What Is The Difference Between Dragonfly And Damselfly?
Dragonflies and damselflies are one of the oldest known insects in the world. These ancient animals are also one of the first to develop wings. There are about 6000 species of dragonflies in the world with over 500 species found in India. Although the two look very similar, there are some marked differences between the […]
How Can We Help Endangered Species?
11 years old Maitreyi from Cochin, India asks us, How can we help endangered species? Every year, many species get listed as endangered. This means those animals or plants are in danger of getting extinct either because their population has become dangerously low due to various reasons or because their habitat is getting destroyed making […]