Showing posts with label rainforest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rainforest. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2009

The chamber of secrets

Yesterday, when I was watching 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', I remembered the chamber of secrets we encountered in the rainforest, with its surprising secrets. This is one of them- a nest of spiders, with hundreds of baby spiders, in a niche at the foot of a tree.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

bracket fungus in the jungle

This is a bracket fungus I saw in the rainforest of the Western Ghats. Our guide said that these are food for some denizens of the forest. The food chain is so delicately balanced that even removing a fungus might disrupt it.