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March 23, 2024
10:29 PM IST
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September 16, 2021
05:27 PM UTC
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April 3, 2024
12:10 PM IST
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March 24, 2024
11:02 PM IST
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November 24, 2017
02:41 PM CET
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Found in numbers at heavy rainy night on a flooded path
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April 3, 2023
05:11 AM UTC
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November 15, 2023
04:44 AM UTC
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November 28, 2019
04:30 PM IST
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February 11, 2023
05:17 PM UTC
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January 20, 2021
03:51 PM IST
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October 7, 2023
07:48 PM IST
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May 4, 2022
07:49 AM UTC
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January 21, 2024
10:16 PM IST
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January 21, 2024
05:09 PM IST
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The brown shrike's continuous calls got my attention only to realise that the snake had already made a kill. The bird was still alive and struggling which was slowly devoured in the next one hour
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January 3, 2024
05:19 AM UTC
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November 19, 2021
12:25 PM IST
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October 10, 2022
09:32 PM IST
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Rediscovery from its Type locality after 142 years
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April 14, 2020
03:34 PM UTC
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September 26, 2023
09:09 PM IST
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November 27, 2023
02:42 AM IST
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July 3, 2023
07:33 PM UTC
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April 17, 2020
01:15 PM IST
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This spider species was peer reviewed by Javed Ahmed and David Hill and a paper was published here: http://peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA_204.1.pdf
This is first time that my name got mentioned in an peer-reviewed scientific article. Thanks to Chinmay for taking this up with curiosity and leading it to peer review. Otherwise this spider would have been erroneously considered as Portia fimbriata.
We had a gala time in seeing variety of biodiversity even though the place looked dry. We had also seen 3 White-browed Bulbuls busy in quarreling that they did not notice our presence. Two of them fell to the ground while fighting and they fell close to me and Jithesh that we could have touched them with our hands. And we had other good experiences while exploring there.
Regarding this discovering this spider, Chinmay had spotted a Trapdoor spider under log that covered ant hill(crazy black ants) . So while he was checking the ant hill carefully , I saw something running hurriedly. I pointed out to Chinmay to which he got excited and screamed "It's a Portia bro!" Then made it to settle on a large seed pod cover. We started photographing it. Everyone got to a chance it see it. Portia was skittish though. So while I was photographing(I took the last chance to photograph) it stayed for little while. Then it jumped off. We search frantically. But disappeared amongst the thick leaf litter below.
Facebook posts:
https://www.facebook.com/harshithjv1986/posts/10158457652794365
https://www.facebook.com/groups/154108581805633/permalink/622996294916857/ (- Chinmay's detailed post on a group)
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September 1, 2022
12:24 PM UTC
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July 23, 2023
05:04 PM IST
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Found this family of scorpions consisting of 1 adult and atleast-3-4 young individuals under a rock. I think they were in a symbiotic relationship with 3 individuals of White-bellied Pug-snout Frog. The scorpions protect the frogs from predators and the frogs protect the young from pests like ants.
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August 24, 2023
01:57 PM IST
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Found caterpillar while peeling Peas from pods.
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May 15, 2023
11:48 PM IST
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October 20, 2023
04:17 AM UTC
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Owl was being chased by crows. Need to know exact Id . Pallied or Indian !
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December 16, 2021
04:59 PM UTC
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August 4, 2020
07:26 PM IST
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October 10, 2023
12:19 AM IST