Forest Mafia


Dicrurus Paradiseus, Madhya Pradesh
A pair of greater racket-tailed drongos in Kanha National Park, Central India. Racket-tailed drongos are known to run a “protection racket” in mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests; warning other species of predators while extracting a fee in terms of insect prey in return.
Photograph: Ramki Sreenivasan

This article is from issue

6.4

2012 Dec