SHIKARI PAKHI is first such colourful, pictorial, identification guide on predatory birds written in vernacular medium. The book documents around 30 species of predatory birds occurring in India with excellent photographs taken from the natural habitat of each species by the photographers showing great perseverance and skill. Every species is supported with a brief text about its name, size, nature, and pattern of call, natural diet, nesting pattern and conservation status. The lucid style of description of these varieties attracts the attention of many irrespective of any discipline and profession.

SHIKARI PAKHI - Koushik
Publication Year - 2010
ISBN - 81-920616-0-3
Price - Rs200

The fascinating subject of ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR or animal mind has been largely unappreciated in our country. Only at the end of 20th century this topic found its way in the Zoology syllabus in the University of Calcutta and over the last 20 - 25 years TV channels like National Geographic, Animal Planet etc, have attracted a crowd of viewers. Hopefully these would kindle the imagination of aspiring researchers. They may gain the impression that worthwhile work can be done in India on ethological and ecological topics and some of these could be as exciting as molecular biology (which requires very expensive laboratories) and can even gradually merge with the latter. Most readers of this book are likely to be graduate / post graduate students of Indian universities. Those who enjoy watching documentaries on the animal world in TV channels and / or are members of Nature clubs / Bird watching groups will also like courses on Animal Behaviour. They already know a lot of facts, only a little marshalling, putting things in order and learning to view the facts in a broader perspective are required and all that is likely to be a pleasant task for them.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR - R.L.Brahmachary
Publication Year - 2011
ISBN - 81-920616-2-7
Price - Rs325

This is a colourful pictorial guide for Indian Primates, which concisely describes all the 15 species occurring in India including their distribution, habit, habitat, morphology, sexual dimorphism, natural diet, endemicity, interspecific variation, population, conservation status and threat to survival. Other chapter includes general description on natural history of Primates. Classified under the same Natural Order as man, non-human primates, which include apes, monkeys, lemurs and langurs, have always excited man’s interest. We human often fail to correlate the naturalness we inherit from our ancestors and hardly look at primates as our fellow members of the same biological fraternity. However in India, we have the traditional practices of sacrificing these poor creatures for various purposes and at the same time worshipping them as incarnation of “God”.

A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO NON - HUMAN PRIMATES OF INDIA - Sangita Mitra
Publication Year - 2011
ISBN - 81-920616-1-0
Price - Rs695