Motherhood is an amazing wonderful skill. Humans aren’t the only species take extraordinary steps to protect, nurture and raise their babies. Even in the animal kingdom moms take time to feed, teach and take care of their offspring.
I was able to capture these pictures how a mother’s instinct kicks in when their youngsters get hungry. No matter where they are, big or small, feathers or not, moms will feed their babies whenever they are hungry.
According to the historical records, out of the Scottish settlers that moved to Ontario in 1815, a few families settled in Bradford area in 1819. They purchased a plot of land for a cemetery and a church on 6th line in 1822. The first log building of “Auld Kirk” (meaning old church) was built there…
While driving along the tracks of the Yala national park in the evening, we came across this young leopard cub perched on a tree branch that gave us the opportunity to take many photographs. Later only we realized that in this photo, no matter from which angle one looked, you simply cannot escape its gaze….
One morning inside the Yala national park, we saw a leopard that was sitting on an open grassy field, going in to a nearby wooded area as we approached. We circled around the wooded lot and saw that it was feasting on a kill. After some time, the leopard came out of the woods and…
One morning inside the Yala national park, we came across a sloth bear on a palu (Manilkara hexandra) tree. It spent a good amount of time pulling branches and snacking on juicy yellow palu fruits. They say eating excessive amounts of this fruit, gives you an intoxicating effect. We believe this bear got ‘tipsy’ after…
During one of our afternoon excursions in the Yala park, we stumbled upon this huge leopard known to safari drivers as “Harak Hora”, the cattle thief. The leopard tried to creep inside a culvert but changed his mind and went in to the jungle. The same evening, when we were returning to our park bungalow,…
When we were traveling along the banks of a water body one evening in the Wilpattu national park, a serpent eagle suddenly dashed in front of our vehicle and landed on the edge of the water. Puzzled by what we saw, we looked to see that the eagle was trying to capture a land monitor….