Richa Malhotra

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Tag Archives: Natural history

This moth supplements its diet with bird tears

It probably gets its fix of salt from those tears.

September 24, 2018 in News, Science, Video, Writing Samples, Year of the Bird.

Little auks slurp like fish

They eat almost 60,000 prey in a day. And can store over 4,000 in their food pouch at one time.

June 21, 2018 in Hakai, News, Writing Samples, Year of the Bird.

When predator turns prey

In a bizarre interaction between a frog and an insect, it’s the frog that ends up as food.

June 20, 2018 in Feature, Nature inFocus, Writing Samples.

Bird Ballet

The huge mass of birds swirled through the sky — twisting and turning, splitting and merging, singing all the while.

May 1, 2018 in Blog, Feature, Photo Feature, Writing Samples, Year of the Bird.

Caterpillar vs. Beetle: Who wins?

Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air.

February 23, 2018 in News, Science, Video, Writing Samples.

Why do fan-throated lizards come in such variety?

The answer goes back millions of years when monsoons clouded over Asia

January 19, 2018 in Mongabay-India, News, Writing Samples.

Inside the secret world of bamboo-breeding frogs

These frogs breed hidden in bamboos and they are – wait for it – cannibals

January 3, 2018 in Blog, Mongabay-India, News, Writing Samples.

Female dragonflies drop dead to avoid males

It’s their way of rejecting unrequited love.

May 1, 2017 in Live Science, News, Writing Samples.

When life gives you ice, break through it

A video I made of a swan pulling its weight in ice.

February 1, 2017 in Blog, Video, Writing Samples.
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