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Indian Hare is one of the least encountered mammals of Corbett Tiger Reserve. By the time you start your morning safari, it has gone down in its burrow and while you are ending your evening safari, you’ll be extremely lucky to have come across one that ventures out of its daytime abode. Indian Hare is […]

Seed-eating birds help with dispersal of seeds, resulting in propagation of flora. It would have been a painfully slow process for the plants to disperse otherwise. These birds, after eating seeds, fly away and some seeds, passing through their digestive tract of the bird, come out with their droppings at locations far away. If this […]

The leopard has been the most successful of the five large cats found across the world belonging to the genus ‘Panthera’. It is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, parts of western and central Asia, south Asia and south-east Asia. At one point of time it was believed that there were twenty seven subspecies of the leopard […]

King Cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world with specimens recorded attaining a length of 17 feet or more. Its venom is not as potent as the venom of some of the smaller venomous snakes like cobras and kraits, but the sheer quantity that it can inject in a single bite is enough […]

Biodiversity can be defined as the sum total of all life forms found in any given habitat or geographical area. These include animals, plants, fungi, bacteria and other microscopic organisms. All components of the biodiversity in any given area share intricate relationships with several others that they share their habitat with and together form a […]

Grasshoppers are among the earliest herbivorous insects to use chewing as a mean of food intake. They are usually found in low vegetation or on the ground and possess long powerful hind limbs that are used for locomotion and escape from predators by jumping. They possess a pair of large compound eyes on the side […]

Canter’s Black-headed Snake is endemic to south Asia and occurs in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and probably parts of Bangladesh. In India, this non-venomous snake is restricted to parts of north India. It is not a common snake to come across in Corbett Tiger Reserve. This may possibly be due to the fact that this […]

We all turn into wildlife photographers when we are on jungle safaris. Modern technology has so many amazing tools of photography, mobile phones, action cameras and digital cameras being some of these. However, it takes effort and special skills to produce wildlife photographs that stand out.Amith Bangre, the Head Naturalist of Jim’s Jungle Retreat takes […]

Honeybees have unique communication skills. When individual honeybees discover food sources, this crucial information has to be passed to the other members of the colony. The honeybees utilize a dance language, called ‘waggle dance’. This dance flight indicates direction, distance and abundance of the food source. The sound signals are produced by waggling the abdomen […]

On the occasion of World Ranger’s Day, Jim’s Jungle Retreat salutes forest rangers who risk their lives to protect wildlifeProtecting wildlife is a risky job. Often our forest rangers have to face hostile field conditions, encounters with wild animals and ruthless poachers to ensure that they perform the duty of ensuring the safety of animals. […]

There are about 6,000 different species of Lycaenidae butterflies found all over the world. This makes them the most diverse family of butterflies. There are more than 440 distinct species of butterflies that belong to this family that may be found in India. The majority of these species have blue colouring on their upper bodies, […]

The wilderness of Corbett is fascinating; there, tigers and leopards live alongside birds in peace, people take advantage of the lush surroundings, and visitors find solace in the jungle. This two-day retreat is both exciting and soothing. But in case you’re organising a protracted and interesting getaway, we advise escaping to stunning tourist destinations close […]

Corbett National Park, a smaller section of the larger Corbett Tiger Reserve, is located in the Nainital district of the Uttarakhand province. It is also a Project Tiger Reserve. The beautiful landscape of Corbett is well-known and legendary for its profusion of tigers. Corbett was first formed in 1936 as Hailey National Park and is […]

It is almost a miracle that creatures as big as elephants are still found in a country with almost one and a half billion people. This is largely because since the ancient times, wildlife has been extended protection by connecting these to gods and deities through religion and culture. It is a delicate balance and […]

Tricolour Pied Flat is an uncommon butterfly found from Himachal Pradesh eastward to eastern Himalayas, occurring between May and December at stream edges in forested areas from 600 m upto 2000 m elevation. Interestingly, the species has been recorded at Jim’s Jungle Retreat twice in the last 2-3 years, at an elevation range of approximately […]

Checkered Keelback is a medium-sized non-venomous snake found in South Asia, Southern China and South-east Asia. It is aquatic in behaviour and can commonly be seen in the forested streams, rivers, ponds and similar waterbodies in Corbett Tiger Reserve. There is a good presence of Checkered Keelback in the waterholes of Jim’s Jungle Retreat. Its […]

Vibrant colours in the wild are created for specific reasons, for nature creates nothing without purpose. The orange and black stripes of a tiger and the black rosettes on a golden coat of a leopard are there to help these stealthy predators to camouflage in their habitat. Many insects exhibit bright colours to warn the […]

If the tiger is the spirit of the jungle, the leopard is the ghost of the jungle. Nobody knows when it emerges and where it disappears, for the leopard in the jungles dominated by the tigers, lives in the shadow of the bigger cat. Being the smaller of the two cats, the leopard has to […]