Janaki Lenin

She is the author of My Husband and Other Animals. She lives in a forest with snake-man Rom Whitaker and tweets at @janakilenin.

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The Flamingo’s One-Legged Act, Ants’ Princess Pheromones, Pampered Orangutans

Janaki Lenin 01/06/2017

A quick review of interesting research on living things...

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Do Female Dragonflies Feign Death to Avoid Sex?

Janaki Lenin 29/05/2017

Sexual harassment is common in the species because males...

A wasp drilling into a fig. Credit: Pratibha Yadav

Meet the Wasp That Sniffs With Its Bum

Janaki Lenin 15/05/2017

Scientists from IISc, Bengaluru, performed experiments to highlight how...

A mother-calf humpback whale pair in Exmouth Gulf. Credit: Fredrik Christiansen

Whispering Whales, Neuron-Editing Octopuses and the Mammal That Gets By on Low Oxygen

Janaki Lenin 30/04/2017

A quick review of interesting research on living things...

John Patterson with one of Tsavo's man-eaters

Does Dental Disease Push Big Cats to Prey on Humans?

Janaki Lenin 22/04/2017

One of the infamous lions of Tsavo suffered from...

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No Ants Left Behind: Why Do Ants Rescue Their Injured Mates?

Janaki Lenin 18/04/2017

Since Matabele ants go out in force, raid and...

Tigers live in perhaps the highest density in Kaziranga National Park of any place in India. In other national parks in India, tigers are in greater peril, but poachers here tend to target the Indian one-horned rhinos instead. Here, a young male emerges from the elephant grass. © Steve Winter

Interview: ‘No One Needs to See Another Portrait of an Animal, You Can Do That at the Zoo’

Janaki Lenin 10/04/2017

Steve Winter is a conservation photographer noted for his...