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A comprehensive guide to the lizards of India.

Two of India's best known ornithologists write a great book on the common birds of the country.

Covers the sad story of India's wildlife in the recent past, analysing how we have come to the present situation of crisis.

A basic colourfully illustrated book on different Indian birds, designed specially for children.

The country's first book on spiders. Vijayalakshmi finds them enchanting and mostly harmless. Lots of colour photographs and line drawings. (out of stock)

Another valuable addition to the series brought out by the Bombay Natural History Society, which over the years has successfully documented much of Indian natural history. Superbly illustrated and produced, this is a must for every nature lover, particularly those who have a soft corner for reptiles and amphibians.

A large format pamphlet, profusely illustrated, on the turtle sanctuaries of Bhitar Kanika. Good for schools and environment awareness programmes.

Goa is a prime destination for birdwatchers. Birds of Goa is primarily intended as a fairly comprehensive reference work for serious birdwatchers and ornithologists. It attempts to provide information on the habitat, population, distribution, migration, breeding status and any locally relevant data of all the 420 bird species that have been reliably recorded in Goa.

This volume (A4 size) contains the most important of the Indian Supreme Courts orders issued between 2002 and 2003 to protect Indias forests and wildlife. The extremely useful compilation also includes all the reports and orders of the Central Empowered Committee.

Well illustrated introduction to over 500 species of mammals.

Over 150 birds found in Delhi are profiled while the author also introduces the reader to various birding areas in Delhi.

A guided tour around the insect kingdoms of India.

All the amazing things which children and adults would like to know about lizards.

This collection of new and published articles on 50 years of post-independence ornithology in India is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Sálim Ali.

Billy is one of Indias most active conservationists. In 1976 he was awarded the World Wildlife Funds Gold Medal for his conservation work. He has played a leading role in the creation of the Dudhwa National Park, a forest sanctuary near the Nepalese border.

A delightful and informative guide to the use of nutrition, vitamins, minerals, massage, herbs and homeopathy to support your pets health and vitality. Sure to be effective in reducing veterinary costs, while enhancing your relationship with your loved ones. Great value for money.

Anyone who looks at this book will become a bird-lover for ever. Beautiful colour pictures, smart identification notes. Expensive but a priceless asset. Every aspect of birdlife illustrated. 1700 colour photographs. Diagnostic features emphasized. Cultural & Ecological notes. 580 bird species around a Hot Spot. Information updated till 2003. BirdLife International conservation status.

The book is a wealth of information: how crocodiles guide their young to the water, male penguins incubate eggs, female hornbills protects their chicks and many more other social tit-bits.

A compact field guide that enables easy identification of more than 350 species of birds living in and around Mumbai, local as well as migrants. Clear colour pictures for easy identification.

A rich and diverse tapestry about not just the natural history of the elephant but its percolation into the depth of Indian culture.

Valmik Thapar is a member of the Central Empowered Committee set up by the Supreme Court to look at issues relating to India’s forests. This book examines the evolution of India’s wildlife governance over the past two centuries and records the efforts to save the fragment remnants of this vanishing wildlife. It also graphically portrays the challenges to the survival of India’s wilderness in the 21st century.

This book is the story of the work of one man, Billy Arjan Singh, to protect Indian wildlife in one small area, Tiger Haven in the Himalayan foothills. Singh’s observations of the surviving wildlife made over a long period make fascinating reading.

Living in the forests of south India for close to two decades has meant several adventures and some hilarious although hair-raising escapades for the author and his family, which are recounted in this book of stories from the wild.

This handy fieldguide covers bird census techniques, giving important information on how to survey bird populations and their habitats from planning to tips on data analysis. It treats various census methods in detail, with examples from the authors experience in the field.

He has spent nearly forty years working with Ranthambhore tigers and the wildlife of Rajasthan. He is Vice-President of Tiger Watch, an NGO working to strengthen the protection of Ranthambhore National Park. Valmik Thapar has spent twenty-five years working for wildlife and the tigers of this country. He has authored six books and presented the BBC film series Land of the Tiger’.

An intensive programme to document the biodiversity of Kerala was initiated by the Western Ghats Cell of the Department of Planning and Economic Affairs, resulting in a series of scholarly publications. This treatise documents the insect fauna of Kerala state.

An intensive programme to document the biodiversity of Kerala was initiated by the Western Ghats Cell of the Department of Planning and Economic Affairs, resulting in a series of scholarly publications. This treatise documents the reptiles of Kerala state. species.

An intensive programme to document the biodiversity of Kerala was initiated by the Western Ghats Cell of the Department of Planning and Economic Affairs, resulting in a series of scholarly publications. This treatise documents the birds of Kerala state.

An intensive programme to document the biodiversity of Kerala was initiated by the Western Ghats Cell of the Department of Planning and Economic Affairs, resulting in a series of scholarly publications. This treatise documents the forest flora of Kerala state, and gives detailed information on the different flowering plant species.

A compact edition of Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, produced in a volume which is easy to carry in the field. With 153 colour plates that illustrate every species.

The first major special compilation of laws relating to the welfare of animals (domestic and wild) in the country. A copy should be with every activist animal rights organization.

Discovery Communications operates and manages Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and other television programmes. This informative cum action oriented publication is from its Young Discoverer’s Science Collection Series. Art paper. Lots of photographs.

A Fantastic effort to produce localized guides for bird-watchers, this book is a must for everybody who are interested in feathered friends. Well-written, with excellent colour illustrations and line drawings, this book serves as a model for more such guides specific to various regions of India.

Discovery Communications operates and manages Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and other television programmes. This informative cum action oriented publication is from its Young Discoverer’s Science Collection Series. Art paper. Lots of photographs.

Discovery Communications operates and manages Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and other television programmes. This informative cum action oriented publication is from its Young Discoverer’s Science Collection Series. Art paper. Lots of photographs.

Discovery Communications operates and manages Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and other television programmes. This informative cum action oriented publication is from its Young Discoverer’s Science Collection Series. Art paper. Lots of photographs.

The Book of Indian Birds, having updated text with currently recognized scientific and common names, and useful new indexes is an invaluable field companion for birdwatchers. Twelfth revised and enlarged centenary edition.

Conflicts at the interface of human habitation and protected areas necessitate the use of drugs and other equipment for the treatment of animals in distress, translocation of endangered species or even capture of wild animals for radio collaring etc. This monograph is meant to be a guide and support reference for those trained in such techniques and not a do-it-yourself manual for the uninitiated.

Bhitarkanika, located on the Orissa coast, besides being one of the country’s biodiversity hotspots is also well known for the massive turtle population that comes to nest on its shores every year. But many of the unique plant and animal species found in this region are increasingly threatened by human activities and development plans made by uncaring politicians and bureaucrats. This book provides an overall picture of man-plant-animal interaction in this protected area and also discusses management strategies for conservation of this unique region.

If you would like to be a bird watcher, this book is for you. Bird by Bird is a field guide to common Indian birds that you can spot around your house, in parks and gardens and in sanctuaries. The meticulous documentation of size, sounds produced and likely locations together with the beautiful illustrations will easily help you to identify the birds around you.

An excellent and beautifully produced small book for the nature lover. Art paper, all coloured photographs – it only goes to show that butterflies can bring immense colour into our lives. The book also includes butterflies of other ranges of the Western Ghats and Southern India.

Field Days is about a naturalist’s journey through South and Southeast Asia. As Dr. Johnsingh, a wildlife biologist of great repute traverses the countryside, he covers all the well known and also lesser known wild life sanctuaries and through the journey he regales the reader not just with heartwarming stories about forests and wildlife, but also with insightful and interesting information about the landscape, the animals encountered and the people who reside in these lands.

First published in 1892, this book remains a classic in the care and management of wild animals in captivity even one hubndred years later. It was written by the first Indian Superintendant of the Calcutta zoo, who was the first zoo manager to produce this practical handbook for zoo managers and also for others interested in wildlife.

George Schaller, one of the leading biologists and wildlife writers in the world, wrote The Deer and the Tiger written way back in the 1960s. The Indian edition was first published in 1998 and this edition is reprinted in 2004. Although the study is set in the Kanha National Park the book deals with wildlife in general, while it specifically studies wild deer and other hoofed animals and predators, focusing on the tiger.

Authoritative and informative book on the locale, habits, breeding etc of different species of turtles and crocs found in the country.

The author explains the main characteristics of some common Indian birds and then discusses the basic principles of birth-watching. Attractively illustrated.

This book contains notes on the habits, geographical distribution and the habitat of 119 species of Indian dragonflies. There are also sketches of important features of the species with black and white diagrams. The text is interspersed with colour photographs either taken from nature or in the laboratory. Scientific work from a premier institution of this country.

A handbook on leaches, containing information on general morphology, anatomy, methods of collection, preservation and study, habit and habitat.

The animal life of the Andaman and Nicobar islands is unique and comparable to that of the famous Galapagos islands of the Pacific Ocean. This book gives detailed information on mammals, birds , reptiles and amphibians while invertebrates such as snails, slugs, insects, scorpions, spiders, centipedes and millipedes are discussed in brief. The text is illustrated with colour photographs.

A fascinating book about elephants from one who was reared on elephant’s milk. Dr Choudhary grew up in Mymensingh, now Bangladesh, inhabiting a feudal world of household elephants, shikar, Indian classical music and good food. His family owned seventeen elephants and he says that unlike other children he came to learn about the facts of life not from the birds and the bees but from hearing stories and witnessing events of the private lives of elephants. Over seventy years he has tracked the forests of the North East, surveying and studying the status and distribution of elephants, man-elephant conflicts and the challenges to elephant survival in a now fast diminishing wild. This book is in the best tradition about writing about animals: a wildlife memoir, peppered with anecdotes, a rare combination of story-telling and scholarship.

This book discusses social behaviour in animals with special reference to vertebrates. It examines topics such as mating patterns, family and group life, courtship behaviour, the functions of reproductive fighting and the pecking order and the growth of social organizations among the different species. Although not an exhaustive review of facts, the book aims at presenting a biological approach to the phenomena of social behaviour.

An excellent publication with hundreds of photographs of birds, common and uncommon, found all over India. Grouped into categories like bee-eaters, rollers and hoopoe, parakeets, vultures, pheasants etc. this book provides minute descriptions of each species and yet never looses sight of the overall beauty and grandeur of the birds or their habitat. Well worth it at Rs. 450, this book is meant for a wide audience having an interest in birds and bird-watching. The author is a Dutchman living in India for the past two decades.

Although spiders have received attention from naturalists for several decades, knowledge of the various aspects of morphology remained incomplete. The present study was undertaken in view of this lacuna and it emphasizes the role played by the spinning apparatus in habit-habitat selection, predator-prey interaction, behaviour and breeding cycle.

Beautifully produced and at a very reasonable rate, this book is ideal for anyone interested in bird watching. Exquisite photographs abound on every page and the text, though minimal, is adequate to give the reader a fair idea of the bird and its habitat. Highly recommended.

In preparing the present revised and abridged edition of Sterndale’s well-known work the editor has quoted the author’s original observations verbatim as far as possible and has condensed the text or omitted portions which are likely to be of interest to specialists, so as to make this volume a detailed practical manual for beginners. The book deals with individual species of mammals, primates, carnivals, insects, rodents, and reptiles including snakes, lizards, tortoises and crocodiles. Details include scientific name, habitat and brief description of each species

A concise and lucid description of India’s poisonous snakes. The study was first published in 1908 by The Bombay Natural History Society, reprinted several times and is now republished by Pilgrims Publishing. The book discusses kraits, cobras, vipers, sea snakes and coral snakes. It also discusses snakebites and treatment for snake poison. The cases discussed are however over a 100 years old. Symptoms and treatment administered are given in minute details.