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.
It was during an evening stroll in my neighbourhood that I happened to see a beaver one evening in a storm water pond, munching a tree branch. I visited the pond for the next few days and saw a pair of them swimming back and forth. My curiosity grew, and within a few days I…
On one evening inside the Yala national park, we ran in to a mini traffic jam, where all the safari vehicles were stopped. We were told it was because of “Gemunu”, the lone tusker who was notorious for demanding food from passing vehicles. We had seen Gemunu in our previous visits to Yala. Our safari…
Cherry blossom trees in Toronto were in full bloom over the weekend attracting thousands of visitors to the city parks. Toronto’s High Park was the centre of attraction and had thousands coming to enjoy the sight that symbolized the arrival of spring. It was 60 years ago in 1959, the Japanese ambassador to Canada gifted…
One early morning, when we were returning to the bungalow after our pre-breakfast roaming inside the Yala national park, we came across this leopard who seemed to be preying on another animal. We put our hunger aside and waited to see what was going to happen. The leopard was aiming at a rabbit. It had…
We spent two days inside the Wilpattu national park with only glimpses of leopards without proper photo opportunities and we were not happy. We had to leave that day, so we packed and started heading back with heavy hearts. Half way to the park exit, we suddenly saw a black spot, that looked like an…
One afternoon, inside the Wilpattu national park, we came across this monarch bird’s nest, which has a distinctive cone shape. There were two chicks in the nest, and two adults were hovering around them. We stopped to watch the commotion and realized that they were teaching the chicks to fly out of the nest. While…