Any nature enthusiasts, especially those on the autism spectrum, I implore you to read Diary Of A Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty. It's a beautiful, beautiful combination of nature experiences, the joy it brings, and the struggles of life being autistic and anxious and struggling in a world of cruel people and ableists. It is powerful, emotional, and even though I haven't finished it, I know it is one of the most influential books I have read in my life thus far.
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Wildlife a word, which comes in our mind when we see the adventurous, thrilled and mysterious life of animals and birds living in the forest, in the wildlife sanctuaries and in other areas of rich biodiversity. It is a word which not only explains their life but, it also explains each and every habit which they form throughout their life, which compels various scientists and every human to study them and to find out the mysteries of life, which humans are trying to understand since thousands of years. So it's not only a word, it's an essence of their life in itself.
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Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Park: Wildlife in Madhya Pradesh
Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Park: Wildlife in Madhya Pradesh
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Harpy eagle, the largest eagle in the world looks like a person in a bird costume, but judging by the size of his talons, I wouldn't want to make fun of him face to face. They live primarily in the upper canopy layer of tropical lowland forest and are considered "endangered species" in Central America due to the rapid decline in their numbers as a result of deforestation. Less than 50,000 of them can be seen over the world.
Harpy eagles have a hearty appetite and enjoy munching on a variety of monkeys, tree porcupines, sloths, coatis, birds, snakes, and lizards.
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Some good news from Indonesia: the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park has just announced that on November 25th their female Sumatran Rhino named Delilah gave birth to a healthy male calf!!!
(Photo credit: Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry)
The as of yet unnamed calf is the second calf born at the sanctuary this month, and his mother Delilah was the second calf ever born at the sanctuary as well as the first captive bred Sumatran rhino to successfully give birth in captivity, so this is great news for captive breeding efforts of this species. There are only somewhere between 34 and 47 Sumatran rhinos in the wild, so captive breeding is incredibly important for this species survival. The sanctuary plans to eventually release the rhinos born at the sanctuary in order to help build the wild population back up. This baby is the fifth calf to be born at the sanctuary, and in addition to being Delilah’s first calf, he is also the first calf to be sired from his father, Harapan, who was originally born in the Cincinnati Zoo.
The mother and calf are currently being held in a naturalistic enclosure at the sanctuary (as the goal is to try to get them to live a life as similar to in the wild as possible) and are being heavily guarded to protect them from poachers. This species has suffered so much due to a combination of poaching for their horns as well as habitat loss. They are also pretty hard to keep and breed in captivity due to their shy nature, so this calf is amazing news!
Also! Fun fact: this species of rhino is the closest living relative of the extinct Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). Which makes sense since the Sumatran rhino is the hairiest of all the living rhino species, which you can especially see with the babies.
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