एक अभागी कौआ

उस दिन सुबह रोज कि तरह में घर से नीकलकर कॉलेज के लिए जा रहा था। वैसे तो कॉलेज को जाने के लिए एक पक्की सडक बनवाई गयी है लेकीन सडक की इतनी दुर्दशा है की पता नही हर साँस के साथ कितनी धूल और मिट्टी फेफडौं में चली जाती है। इसलिए में सदैव ही दूसरे रास्ते से जाता हूं। पूना में होते हुए भी वह दुसरा रास्ता खेतो और बहूत सारे फार्म हाऊसेस से गुजरता है। साधारण पाँच किलोमीटर पैदल चलने के बाद मै कॉलेज पहूचता हूं। उस दिन भी रोज की हि तरह में उस रास्ते से गुथर रहा था तभी अचानक मेरी नजर रास्ते के किनारे खडे खंबे पे गई और मेरा मन दुख से भर गया। एक अभागी कौऐ की लाश वायर से लटक रही थी। उस दिन मनुष्य के आधूनिक विज्ञान के करिष्मे के कारण एक और जान चली गयी।

यह केवल एक ही उदाहरण नही है, और भी अनगिनत उदाहरण है जहाँ पर पशु पक्षीयौं को अपनी जान से हात गवाना पडा है। गाव में बिजली के खंबो से कितने ही बंदरो की जान गयी है। पता नही हम मनुष्य कब ये समझेंगे की यह धरती हम अकेले मनूष्य की नही है। हमे सबका ध्यान और संतुलन बनाना चाहिए। यह सभी पेड पौधे पंछी हमारे सहयोगी तथा मित्र है। इस धरती पर सभी को जीने का समान अधिकार है परंतू हमारे कारण पता नहि ऐसे कितने ही जीवों की जान चली जाती है। मुझे लगता है की सभी बिजली की तारें भुमिगत होनी चाहिए कि जीससे किसी भी तरह का खतरा नहि हो सकता। पता नहि हमारे भारत देश ने अलग से पर्यावरण मंत्रालय क्युं बनवाया है। शायद उन्हे यह पता नहि कि पर्यावरण का मुलभूत अर्थ ही है "सभी जीव"। यह मंत्रालय शायद सिर्फ प्रदुषण और अपारंपारिक उर्जा स्तोत्रों पे ध्यान देता है।

अब उस बेचारे कौऐ की क्या गलती थी? उसका भी एक परिवार होगा, माँ, पिताजी, पत्नी और बच्चे होंगे। लेकीन बिजली कि खुली वायरों ने उसकी जान ले ली। चलो अब यही उम्मीद करते है कि एक दिन यह परिस्थिती बदल जाऐगी।

Baby pigeon in my house

From couple of days, I am waiting for one thing to be happen. I have one bedroom which is not in use so nobody is going there. From few days ago one pigeon couple built a nest on the loft. Unfortunately their egg fall down and could not survive. After around 2 months, today I climb up on the window and see the nest which shocks me as there are 2 medium sized baby birds seating in side the nest. I don't know when that pigeon laid eggs and when the baby pigeons born. Now I am so happy that I can't express my feelings right now. So here are the few clicks of the baby, hope you love them.

someone laid eggs on my lens

In the afternoon I was laying on the bed, I kept my spectacles aside for a while and doing some work on my laptop. After 15 minutes I pick up the spectacles and I saw some dirty thing on the lens. But before cleaning it I observe it carefully and surprisingly I saw one amazing thing. Someone laid eggs on my lens.

Very small around 25 - 30 eggs are there, yellowish in color and covered with some substance. I have taken the photographs from the back side of the lens. Don't know which insect laid eggs in just 15 minutes of time, the insect looks to be in much hurry. Now I will try to collect those eggs safely and will watch the future progress of them.

THE SLOTH

Sloths are medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth), classified into six species. Extant sloths are arboreal (tree-dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America, and are known for being slow-moving and hence named "sloths". Extinct sloth species include a few species of aquatic sloths and many ground sloths. Sloths are classified as folivores, as the bulk of their diets consist of buds, tender shoots, and leaves, mainly of Cecropia trees. Some two-toed sloths have been documented as eating insects, small reptiles, and birds as a small supplement to their diets. Linnaeus's two-toed sloth has recently been documented eating human faeces from open latrines. They have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrients, and do not digest easily. Sloths, therefore, have large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. Sloths' tongues have the unique ability to protrude from their mouths 10 to 12 inches, an ability that is useful for collecting leaves just out of reach. As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take a month or more to complete.

Sloths make a good habitat for other organisms, and a single sloth may be home to moths, beetles, cockroaches, ciliates, fungi, and algae. Although unable to survive outside the tropical rainforests of South and Central America, within that environment sloths are outstandingly successful creatures. Sloths' claws serve as their only natural defense. A cornered sloth may swipe at its attackers in an effort to scare them away or wound them. Despite sloths' apparent defenselessness, predators do not pose special problems: sloths blend in with the trees and, moving only slowly, do not attract attention. Only during their infrequent visits to ground level do they become vulnerable. The main predators of sloths are the jaguar, the harpy eagle, and humans. The majority of recorded sloth deaths in Costa Rica are due to contact with electrical lines and poachers. Their claws also provide a further unexpected deterrent to human hunters; when hanging upside-down in a tree, they are held in place by the claws themselves and often do not fall down even if shot from below.

10 Most Rare and Ugly animals in the world

The most famous on top"The Sloth"

Aye-Aye

Balaeniceps

Blobfish

Naked mole rat 

Rat 

Sphynx 

Star nose rat

Tarsier 

Warthog 

Become happy with more smiles on faces of your loved ones

You can't imagine but when I saw the theme of the McCain Snacks, the first thought in my mind was about the movie “Ratatouille ". Yes right, the most famous and evergreen movie of the Hollywood. And the reason behind it is the idea behind the food serving" More smile month"," let's put smile on that face".

Immediately I remembered the last seen of the movie when the critic Anton Ego comes to the famous hotel Gusteau's restaurant and ordered perspective to the waiter. Then the chef Remy rat decides to serve "ratatouille" to the famous critic Anton Ego. Everyone there gets surprised but the rat decides to go with it. And the most critical and important seen of the movie comes when the Anton Ego take first bite of the ratatouille and suddenly his memory takes him to his past. When he was fall from the bicycle ride, he returned back to home with crying. Then his mother serves him ratatouille and his smile came back.

The ratatouille prepared by the rat was having same taste and feeling. That was the most important and deciding shot of the movie. Just imagine that your child is crying for some reason and you give him a delicious food and because of its taste your child forgot the incident he had and eat the food with smile on the face. Really that will be the proud and relaxing moment for the parents. The same concept is used by the company “McCain Snacks’ where the food brings smile on the face by serving their delicious food items. Really I will try this concept with my loved baby. It is very hard for a parent to see his child crying. Generally parents try to manage their child by many ways. They only want to bring the smile of their children back. So this is a best innovative concept I thought to make someone happy. Because when the stomach is full then and then only our minds will be fresh. With hungry stomach the mental stress starts building up. So as a parent everyone should take care of their loved ones by these innovative concepts.

McCainSnakes offers many delicious and juicy food items such as McCain Potato Cheese Shotz, McCain Veggie Burger, McCain Smiles, McCain French Fries, McCain Aloo Tikki etc.

No doubt that by eating these fresh and delicious foods any one can become happy. To know more about it please visit the following link http://www.mccainindia.com/

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Note:- Images are taken from website http://www.mccainindia.com/

World Animal Day 4th of October

Today is the one of the most important day for our Nature. Today entire world celebrates “World Animal Day”. World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

To help protect and save our Mother Nature we all should take care of the animals and birds that are wondering near our houses. Due to human evolution and rapid industrialization there are so many animal species which are extinct and many of are Endangered. It’s our duty to protect each of them because human cannot survive alone in the Nature without these animals, birds and most importantly the plants. So today we will decide to care for these animals and birds by many ways. For example we will start using eco-friendly bags instead of leather bags which will prevent killing of cows and buffalos for their leather. Also you can have some water pots placed in your balconies and on terraces so that birds can get drinking water during summer seasons. The most importantly all the parents should give awareness to their Childs regarding the issues with the animals and birds in our Nature.

As an initiative I will post information of some of the top endangered species from India. Today we will get familiar with The Indian pangolin. The information is taken from Wikipedia.

The Indian pangolin

The Indian pangolin, thick-tailed pangolin, or scaly anteater (Manis crassicaudata) is a pangolin found in the plains and hills of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. It is not common anywhere in its range. Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armor. It can also curl itself into a ball as self-defense against predators such as the tiger. The color of its scales varies depending on the color of the earth in its surroundings. It is an insectivore that feeds on ants and termites, digging them out of mounds and logs using its long claws, which are as long as its fore limbs. It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day. The Indian pangolin is endangered by hunting for its meat and for various body parts used in traditional medicine. Within its range it is variously known as saal khapri (Chhattisgarhi), polusu pandi or nela chepa (Telugu), eenampechi (in Kerala), azhungu or alangu (Tamil), bajrakapta (Oriya), kaballewa (Sinhala), and chippu handi (Kannada).

The Indian pangolin is a solitary, shy, slow-moving, nocturnal mammal. It is about 84–122 cm long from head to tail, the tail usually being 33–47 cm long, and weighs 10–16 kg. Females are generally smaller than the males and have one pair of mamma. The pangolin possesses a cone-shaped head with small, dark eyes, and a long muzzle with a nose pad similar in color, or darker than, it’s pinkish-brown skin. It has powerful limbs, tipped with sharp, clawed digits. It is an almost exclusive insectivore and principally subsists on ants and termites, which it catches with a specially adapted long, sticky tongue. The pangolin has no teeth, but has strong stomach muscles to aid in digestion. The most noticeable characteristic of the pangolin is its massive, scaled armor, which covers its upper face and its whole body with the exception of the belly and the inside of the legs. These protective scales are rigid and made of keratin. It has 160-200 scales in total, about 40-46% of which are located on the tail. Scales can be 6.5–7 cm long, 8.5 cm wide, and weigh 7-10 grams. The skin and scales make up about one-fourth to one-third of the total body mass of this species.

The Indian pangolin is solitary, mostly nocturnal, and terrestrial. In habitats such as Sri Lankan rainforests, they may be more arboreal, using their claws and prehensile tails as supports to readjust four legs as they climb. These pangolins dig their own burrows in the ground, at depths of 1.5–6 m; these are frequently under large rocks and the entrance is often hidden with soil. When in danger, they roll up into balls, with their large tails pressed tightly against face and belly to help protect themselves.

Although the Indian pangolin is protected by national legislation in many protected areas throughout its range, it is heavily exploited for its flesh, scales, and skin. Illegal demand has increased over the past 20 years. Populations are declining due to hunting and poaching for both subsistence and international trade. As they only have a single offspring per year, this high demand is starting to seriously endanger populations. Various parts of the pangolin are valued as sources of food and medicine. The scales are used as an aphrodisiac, or made into rings or charms. The skins are used to manufacture leather goods, including boots and shoes. The majority of hunting is carried out by nomads and trained local hunters.

Pangolins are the most heavily trafficked CITES-protected mammal. The two other Asian species of pangolins (Manis javanica and Manis pentadactyla) are also declining due to the market in Chinese traditional medicine.