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FAN THROATED LIZARD DISPLAY

Fan throated lizards are from the agamid family, these lizards are not more the 6 inches long are distributed widely in the Indian sub-continent. The males have fan like membranes which they use for display and to attract mates.

Posted: Baghvan by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 8 May 2013

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WHEN IT RAINED PREDATORS

It is uncommon here to get guests who are doing over 10 drives in one park. On one occasion I had the ‘Pitti’ family with me for 11 drives. I was wondering as to what to do with the drives, as they were veteran wild-lifers who had been visiting parks in India for over 30 years. They were real keen on seeing predators and for the first five...

Posted: Baghvan by shreenidhi jayadeva, Date: 25 April 2013

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LAZY TIGER

With temperatures rising in Pench, we entered the park with a plan to check all the water holes along the way for tigers. We were not disappointed, because soon after we reached the second water hole on our track, we spotted this beauty lying near the water. While we waited for the tiger to move, it started getting extremely dark - rainclouds were...

Posted: Baghvan by Sangita S. Mani, Date: 15 April 2013

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DHOLE KILL

This morning, we were enjoying the beauty of the park, and were excited about visiting a new area. We had managed to spot a variety of animals including gaur, nilgai, jackals, wild boar, spotted deer and langur. As we climbed up an incline, we saw two dholes (wild dogs) streak past us. We were thrilled to have seen them, but disappointed that we couldn't...

Posted: Baghvan by Sangita S. Mani, Date: 15 April 2013

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SPRING

Spring is associated with ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection, and regrowth. It does hold true as even in the forest we have been seeing fledglings of parakeet’s, thick-knee’s incubating its eggs, Indian rollers displaying avidly & their mating rituals, sambar’s wallowing, chital’s rutting voraciously, trees...

Posted: Baghvan by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 11 April 2013

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DHOLE'S

Dhole’s (Indian wild dogs) haven't been seen commonly in Pench for the last couple of years now. But there is good news as we have been constantly sighting 4 different packs in an area of 110 sq km, individuals ranging from 6 – 21 in each pack. We were lucky to see that some of these packs have pups & the numbers have been on a rise. This...

Posted: Baghvan by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 11 April 2013

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EAGLE'S MATING AND TIGER's OFFSPRING

One morning we entered the park with expectation of seeing some tiger's. The first hour went without much of commotion except unsure distress calls in a couple of areas. Upon reaching one of the water holes we stopped to look at a crested serpent eagle. In the meanwhile we heard another serpent eagle calling from the vicinity, all of a sudden we saw it...

Posted: Baghvan by Ramesh Rana, Date: 10 April 2013

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THE LEOPARDESS AND HER CUBS

We had never expected to see this leopardess so close from us calling for her cubs! Soon after following the "Alarm calls" given by the monkey, we reached over a turn where someone had already spotted these leopards wandering in the bushes. We had lost all our hope for seeing this leopardess as it is a very shy animal and having known that she...

Posted: Baghvan by Kaustubh Thomare, Date: 4 April 2013

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THE BIG BOSS

It was our continuous 9th drive in the park and we always used to miss this sighting by a few minutes! As we heard a tiger growl at a distance as soon as we entered the park, we decided to stay there and wait for it to come out. During our long wait of two hours, we heard spotted deer alarm calls a several times, and also tigers growl a few times again....

Posted: Baghvan by Kaustubh Thomare, Date: 3 April 2013

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ROLY POLY SHOWS UP

One morning, five guests on their first visit to the Indian Jungle had high expectations of spotting some stripes and rosette's. We were fortunate enough to see jackal, ubiquitous langur, chital and macaques in the first hour. We reached one of the smaller ponds when another naturalist pointed out they heard some load roars inside the woods. After a...

Posted: Baghvan by Ramesh Rana, Date: 2 April 2013

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