good, look forward to such botany lessons from you and Biju and much more life learning sounds very interesting
usha di On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a lovely idea ma'am. Will do that when I meet him next (which is > soon). > > He is a terrific person. Knows the forests there inside out. He is in > charge of keeping a vigil throughout the night on alternate days in the > sanctuary throughout the year. The purpose is to light fires which drive > away the elephants that approach the river at the border of the sanctuary > to cross over to the village beyond the river. > > In fact, we met him on a butterfly survey where he was finding > caterpillars for us that were hidden in ways one can scarcely imagine! His > name is Biju. An exciting character who has trekked to various passes in > the Himalayas because he had some contacts while working as as a chef in > Delhi. He was later working in Bangalore at a 5 star hotel when he got this > job in Kerala. > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ushadi Micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> what a nice story of human interest along with biology/botany lesson, >> thanks Anurag. >> >> indeed its encouraging to think that the guard knew this titbit, may he >> is an educated person (if book learning, fine, if personal reading and >> knowledge accumulating the better, ie a self taught individual thats even >> better) ... nice that you met him... did you take his pictures, would be >> handy when you grow up and write your memories of trekking and >> personalities you met while trekking hiking exploring etc >> >> or even in some papers or essays while young >> >> usha di >> >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you ma'am. >>> >>> While we were trekking through the forest and found this herb, the >>> forest guard told us that this was the point of transition from a deciduous >>> to a semievergreen forest. He mentioned this in passing. After I came back >>> home and identified this plant, I read that this plant is in fact found at >>> the confluence of the above two types of forest! Very nice when something >>> like that is practically observed. >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Ushadi Micromini < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> very nice >>>> usha di >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Anurag Sharma <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Family: Acanthaceae >>>>> Date: 6th March 2015 >>>>> Place: Aralam WLS, Kerala >>>>> Habit: Herb >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Usha di >>>> =========== >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Anurag N. Sharma >>> BSc. (CBZ) 2nd Year >>> St. Josephs College >>> Bangalore >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> > > > > -- > Anurag N. Sharma > BSc. (CBZ) 2nd Year > St. Josephs College > Bangalore > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
