1.
Male Oriental
Garden Lizard or
Changeable Lizard
exhibiting red throat
during breeding
season. Image by
Bankim Desai.
2.
Irula Kali digs
out a cobra in
Rajasthan. Not a
strategy for the
fainthearted! Image
by Rom Whitaker.
3.
Indian Rat
Snakes or Dhamans
have a reputation
for being fast and
excitable, but are
harmless colubrids.
Image by John
McGrath.
2.
earthen levees that criss-crossed the
landscape, they focussed their
attention on the patches of remnant
vegetation, often disappearing in the
thick undergrowth. Rom had
remarked that their technique is
based upon heading straight for
dense scrub. Sometimes they
followed snake tracks to rat burrows,
which they excavated; first with their
crowbars and then with bare