Rabi Pirzada’s may have gained some recognition owing to her brief acting and singing stints, but there’s more to her than that what meets the eye. The Shor Sharaba beauty happens to be very fond of snakes. In fact, Pirzada’s bedroom is… Read More »Pakistani Actress Rabi Pirzada Loves Snakes
Like many schools across the United States, St. Mary’s, a small, public liberal arts college, is figuring out how to field increasing requests for animals by students with diagnosed mental health problems. Last fall it began allowing “comfort animals” for students like… Read More »Animals Give Us Comfort
By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi How weird human beings are. Ask a normal person to touch a snail and they recoil in horror. The body of the snail is long, moist and slimy. The slime that snails secrete is seen as… Read More »Facts about Snail Slime
By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Birds in tropical climates face predators- larger birds, mammals and snakes- who rob their nests, stealing eggs or killing chicks. In a study published in The American Naturalist, scientists report a novel nesting strategy adopted by… Read More »The Birds are Not Stupid
By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Animal con artists are so sophisticated that they make us look like amateurs. Mimicry – in appearance, scent, sound and behavior (for instance a harmless red milk snake will change its colors to look like a… Read More »Animal Con Artists
By Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Twenty five years ago I wrote a quiz book called Wise and Wonderful published by Rupa. The idea was to get people familiar with the millions of wonderful things animals could do. So many years later… Read More »Amazing Abilities of Animals
Before humans milked cows, herded goats or raised hogs, before they invented agriculture, or written language, before they had permanent homes, and most certainly before they had cats, they had dogs. Or dogs had them, depending on how you view… Read More »The Evolution of Dog
Scant attention is paid in Pakistan to subjects like environmental protection, water pricing, minority rights and wildlife conservation and even less to furthering literacy and planned parenthood. Wildlife in Pakistan is being decimated because of two reasons. First, there is… Read More »Former Chief Secretary GB, AJK, NWFP & Sindh Wakes Up After Retirement
Veterinary doctors who should have their licences taken away combined their brains with those of forest officers and decided that the only way to get rid of the “monkey menace” was to sterilize the monkeys as well. Unfortunately, this is… Read More »What to Do with the Stray Monkeys?
Recently, the Indian Ministry of Health raided the kingpin of the illegal oxytocin trade in India. He is a lowly employee of the Municipal Corporation of Kolkata with 5 houses, and many godowns stuffed with oxytocin, and another illegal drug… Read More »Unchecked and Illegal Wildlife Trade Networks
