Landour is located at an altitude of about 6,800 to 7,798 ft in the Lower Western Himalaya, Mussoorie Range. Along hillside one oldest residential schools Asia, Woodstock School situated. It encompasses a considerable forested area, which mostly monoculture Banj Oak (Quercus leucotrichophora) with intermittent Deodars, Pines and Rhododendrons. The climatic condition, forest type soil are congen...

The existence of ancient deep-water lakes provides an opportunity to study the independent adaptation of aquatic organisms to pelagic, benthic, and rocky shore habitats. With improving resolution of their phylogenetic relationships, the many cichlid fish species endemic to the African Great Lakes Malawi, Tanganyika, and Victoria provide a significant resource for the comparative study of such e...

The origins of the project go back about ten years. At that time, I wanted to make a game that required a lot of information about animals which ones were dangerous, which ones were good for eating, how big they were, etc. So I manually constructed a relational data base listing all the common animals and all their important properties. There were several thousand animals, and each had about 10...

A new procedure for determining the amount of venom ejected by a bite of a poisonous snake was established. The procedure consists of exposing a fresh piece of rabbit muscle to an attack by a poisonous nake, extracting the injected venom from the piece, determining the toxic activity of the extract and calculating the amount of venom ejected. We confirmed that about 90 % of the injected venom w...