Hide and Seek with Hyena

Away from the labs of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, into the wilderness of boulders, this was the first time I came out of my comfort zone and got an opportunity to work at Utsav Camp Sariska as an intern. 

Roaming in the Cold Breeze

It has been 13 days into Sariska and we have come across diverse animal species that includes birds, bees, butterflies, beetles and what not!!
In the buffer region we roam every morning and evening and the one creature that usually lit our eyes is the leopard. Having our binoculars in hands, we look over the boulders for the search of these giant cats!!!!

Unveiling the Stories of Hyena

Leopards, tigers, hyenas, foxes all of them are so glorified and we listen about them from the very early of our life. But But but….. it was the very first time that I read about hyena!!
Phylogenetically closer to felines and behaviourally and morphologically similar to canids in several aspects...
Striped hyena is the one which are found in India and all what I started to manifest was a "hyena sighting"
Hyena being a nocturnal animal is difficult to be sighted during the day so all of us decided to wake up at 4 in the morning! 
Waking up early has always been the hardest thing for me...but the hope of finding a hyena lifted my spirit up!!