Medicine & TechnologyMacaques formerly roamed peacefully in Lopburi as tourists regularly fed them fruit. Now during the lockdown, food shortage for the monkeys has affected their behavior, disturbing local residents.
Terrible news hits the headlines as a newborn baby boy, abandoned by his mother at a pondside in Thailand was found partially eaten by monitor lizards. Watch the footage of the police collecting the remains of the baby by clicking the link above.
Watch the shocking video of a monkey suddenly getting off its toy bike and grabbing a toddler sitting peacefully on a bench in an alley. Witnesses shouted in shock when they saw the child getting dragged on the street. Click the link to watch.
A new study in the Mekong River shows that large-scale sand mining may eventually lead to collapse in the riverbanks endangering not only the ecosystem but the lives and livelihood of people around it.
In a recent incident, the quarantine authorities of Australia detected a dead black-spined toad in a passenger’s shoe and urged the travelers to check their luggage to avert such incident.
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami was able to take so many lives due to the lack of warning system in the Indian Ocean. Those in the affected areas had little-to-no warning and no time to evacuate. Since then, it has been an international effort to develop and put into practice a reliable warning system.