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                                          GIANT SQUIRRELS DESCRIPTION : Indian Giant squirrels are among the largest squirrels in the world. These arboreal creatures prefer habitats with contiguous forest patches, tall trees, and canopy connectivity, which protect them from predators and provide an ample supply of food. In fact, they rarely descend from the forest canopy. Despite their high perch they serve as prey for raptors and sometimes even large carnivores such as leopards and clouded leopards and primates such as lion-tailed macaques. Scientists don't know why these mostly solitary giant squirrels evolved to be larger than their squirrel cousins. They primarily feed on fruits, flowers, seeds, leaves, bark, and occasionally insects and bird eggs too. Destruction and fragmentation of their forest habitats, along with hunting, are major threats to the survival of giant squirrels. As a part, Indian gian squirrels are a wonderful being, a mind that characterising this world for connection.

                           KNOB BILLED DUCK - OLD WORLD BIRD The knob-billed duck is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Pakistan, India, Indochina and southern China. In South America it is distributed in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. These duck species feed on plant matter, seeds, grasses, shoots, small fish and invertebrates. They inhabit marshes, swamps, rivers, lakes, rice fields and inundated floodplains. These ducks breed during the rainy season. CONSERVATION STATUS : LEAST CONCERN, POPULATION DECREASES

                                  INDIAN SPOTTED BILL DUCKS The Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha) is a large dabbling duck that is a non-migratory breeding duck throughout freshwater wetlands in the Indian subcontinent. This duck is a resident throughout Pakistan and India in freshwater wetlands. They tend to avoid very large patches of open water and prefer medium-sized wetlands with vegetation cover and feeds by dabbling for plant food mainly in the evening or at night. Indian spot-billed ducks feed on plants, including crops such as rice, as well as invertebrates including snails. The breeding season varies with rainfall and water condition but is July to September in northern India and November to December in southern India. Multiple broods may be raised. It nests on the ground hidden within in vegetation near water, and lays 8-14 eggs. They are seen isolated from other species and usually in pairs or small groups and when disturbed they can take off easily and nearly vertically from the water.

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                                      PARADISIACAL - FLOWERS SERIES The moth orchid was one of the first orchids to be described from the Far East and its hybrids are now popular as houseplants. Orchids (Orchidaceae) are the largest family of flowering plants, and there are over 50 species of Phalaenopsis alone.Phalaenopsis amabilis usually grows on trees, rarely on rocks, in rainforest where the humidity is high but there is free air movement. Subspecies amabilis has the widest distribution and occurs from Palawan in the southern Philippines to Borneo, Sumatra and Java. It was originally described (as Angraecum albus majus ) from the island of Amboina in Indonesia by the German-Dutch botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius in 1750. It's ecology is mainly an epiphytic on tree trunks, branches and rocks in lowland tropical rain forest.

" Particles are sensed and connected as remote by smell, HI.. I'm a remote sensing specialist " A deer's olfactory senses are its greatest superpower. Deer use their nose as a primary defense against predators. In fact, a deer's nose functions better than a bloodhound's nose. Olfactory receptors are the key a deer's long nose is loaded with them. They have 800 times more receptors than your nose. But that's not all: The roof of a deer's mouth contains the Jacobsons organ, which sorts out smells. When a deer breathes, it automatically detects various smells in the air, including human scent.

Clouds are the reality where we storing the past and reflect in the space about what we are, when we look the frame above. Seeking is process of wonders, anything with whole celestial to connect and communicate. Although the basic idea of cloud formation is easy to understand, there is much more to learn. Peek beneath a cloud's fluffy exterior, and you'll find a world of complexity. In fact, clouds are considered one of the most challenging aspects of climate science. That's because truly understanding clouds requires a deep understanding of the entire atmosphere.  We rebreathe us and It’s all us expressing naturistic blow.  If parts of clouds contain small water droplets or ice crystals of similar size, their cumulative effect is seen as colors. The cloud must be optically thin, so that most rays encounter only a single droplet. Iridescence is therefore mostly seen at cloud edges or in semi-transparent clouds, while newly forming clouds produce the brightest and most colorful iridescence. When the particles in a thin cloud are very similar in size over a large extent, the iridescence takes on the structured form of a corona, a circular bright disk around the sun or moon, surrounded by one or more colored rings. In recent years, experiments have taken place, chiefly in the USA and the former USSR, adding particles into clouds that act as condensation or freezing nuclei. This cloud seeding involves the addition into the atmosphere from aircraft of dry ice, silver iodide or other hygroscopic substances. These experiments have largely taken place on the margins of farming areas where rainfall is needed for crop growth as a Man Made Rain.

“VELLI” the tittle from Tamil language meaning fence. Fence which use to protect the things what we deserve in this land. and also it is used to divide the land as trauma. To protect and also offence the divide between us, we have to sportive and serious to get better version of ourselves to be stronger. The active mind has to use the technique to defeat the challenges and observe the situation to overcome the phases. The practice is the huge response once mind involved into commitment, makes a linear focus to realize what you/we are and it’s make the process strong, From thoughts to action. 

                                           S P O T T E D O W L E T The spotted owlet species is distributed in Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. These owlets are polytypic species.The natural ecosystems and habitats of these owlet species include, subtropical and tropical open lowland forests, semi-open country, semi-deserts and hot deserts. The diet of the spotted owlet consists mainly of insects. Grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, moths, insect larvae, toads, small frogs, lizards, small birds and small rodents are their primary food.These spotted owlet species mostly use tree cavities and well branched densely foliaged trees. The breeding season of these spotted owlet species is from February to April in northern India. The laying season is from November to April in southern India.The chicks hatch out after 25-30 days and fledge after 25 days. Habitat alteration and destruction and capture of adults and juveniles for pet-trade are the main threats that are endangering the survival of this owlet species.

Dragonflies and damselflies, like cockroaches, are two of the oldest insect groups. During prehistoric times, they were as big as hawks. You can find Odonate fossils from Kansas to Siberia. These fascinating creatures had wingspans of almost 30 inches and were the largest insects to ever live. They can be found all over the world except Artic and Antartica. An adult damselfly has a long slender body, which is green, blue, red, yellow, black, or brown and often brightly colored. The color of some species will change with a variety of environments, fading from bright blue to dull purple responding to cool temperatures or light. Damselflies are extremely beautiful, beneficial predators because they help control populations of harmful insects. Adults consume large quantities of other insects such as flies, mosquitoes and moths and some eat beetles and caterpillars. One way to conserve them is by avoiding indiscriminate use of pesticides. Damselflies are also a very important group of insects in stream and pond ecosystems. They are often used as an indicator of weather water is clean or polluted. The quality of the environment can be monitored by damselflies as their presence is strongly affected by different factors such as water flow, pollution and vegetation. The destruction and alteration of freshwater habitats are the greatest threats to damselfly species worldwide. Without clean water damselflies are unable to breed. An alteration of habitats through climate change may also pose a threat to damselfly populations in the future.

A dragonfly is a symbol of change, transformation and self-realization. Since dragonflies eat mosquitoes and other insects, they help gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts. This also helps the environment, because it allows humans to reduce the use of pesticides to kill these insects.And on certain months of the year, the air would be full of dragonflies in the morning, all part of a secret dance, whose music we could not hear. Those months are now here & the air is full of dragonflies. Scientists have recently learnt that dragonflies migrate huge distances & even over the oceans. And they carry an entire ecosystem on their diaphanous wings. Birds chase dragonflies over the seas.Over the huge expanse of ocean water, where food would be scarce for a tired bird migrating thousands of kilometres, it is expected that the falcons eat dragonflies. That dragonfly that lives near you thus eats disease-carriers and provides food for birds, doing more in its lifetime than we would ever give it credit for.

The Indian Pond herons lay 3 to 7 eggs, glossy blue or white in (olive brown) color. They are used to migration after breeding season only. Its biology has been surprisingly little studied. Its foraging repertoire is large and interesting. Studies are needed of its foraging and breeding behaviour and biology over its variety of habitats and geography.

from space to root, we need a perspective in understanding of our neighbour beings and have smooth changes to adapt with journey we having in this celestial spaceship.

Dragonflies were some of the first winged insects to evolve, some 300 million years ago. Modern dragonflies have wingspans of only two to five inches, but fossil dragonflies theorize that high oxygen levels during the Paleozoic era allowed dragonflies to grow  up to two feet. Dragonflies are expert fliers. They can fly straight up and down, hover like a helicopter and even mate mid-air. If they can't fly, they'll starve because they only eat prey they catch while flying.  Dragonflies, which eat insects as adults, are a great control on the mosquito population. A single dragonfly can eat 30 to hundreds of mosquitoes per day. A dragonfly called the globe wanderer has the longest migration of any insect's 11,000 miles back and forth across the Indian Ocean.

Being social birds and ultimate survivors - they have been found breeding at 14,000 ft in the Himalayas and nearly 2,000 ft down in a Yorkshire coal mine - sparrows are good indicators of the state of the environment. "The air which a sparrow breathes is the same as the one we breathe. Decline of common species is the first warning signal for us that we are doing something wrong with the environment. Our lack of interest and awareness towards the concern for the lifestyle of all beings around us made impact externally as well as internally in which we are connected. 

 Green bee-eaters are thought to be monogamous breeders, which means that a male will mate with only one female and a female will mate with only one male. The breeding season ranges from March to June or sometimes July to August, depending on the range. These birds are solitary nesters in Arabia and Africa, whereas small colonies are found in India, with larger colonies (10 to 30 breeding pairs) in Myanmar and Pakistan. 4-8 white eggs are laid in the chamber and incubation is 18 to 22 days, mainly carried out by the female. The young stay in the nest for 22 to 31 days while being fed by both their parents. The Green bee-eater is common throughout its range and not currently known to suffer any major threats. However, as its main food source, bees, is decreasing, this could in the future be a problem.

Blue banded bees are solitary bees which are characterized by their glittering blue color bands on their abdomen. They construct their nests and brood cells for their young ones in soils. They are polylectic and wild pollinators playing major role in crop pollination. Research on blue banded bees is very limited and less studies.Blue banded bees are fossorial bees. The life stages of the bees develop inside sealed earthen brood cells. Cells, at the end of tunnels, contain an egg with a pollen/nectar mixture for the larval food. More often invasive methods are used for studying the life stages of these bees. Amegilla cingulata indigenous to Australia and South (and South East) Asia.