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...India: elephants, wild boars, cobras and bears also abound. The best way to catch the country's extraordinary fauna is to plan a two- or three-day trip to one of India's numerous national parks, where jeep and elephant-back safaris will take you deep into the forest. Four of the best national parks are listed below; a few days spent in any one of them can open a window into a secret world, where golden-faced storks hover over the morning mist in ghostly congress, monkeys hold parliament on the branches of dead trees, and peacocks fight stately...
...Bandhavgarh: Visitors who want to see tigers are often disappointed at other reserves - where the big cats are spread over a vast area - but never at Bandhavgarh, a rugged forest in the center of the country. The park's modest size means that it is likely to have the highest density of tigers of any Indian park (the population is estimated at around 50), and it buzzes every morning and evening with tourist jeeps racing toward the spot where the latest tiger sighting has been made. There's not a lot of other wildlife to see in Bandhavgarh, but stay...
...caliber recruits and respect from national pundits won’t come simply by beating upon New Havenites and suburban-dwelling Jersey Tigers. It will come from beating the likes of UCLA, UC Santa Clara, Wake Forest, and SMU, perpetual national powerhouses of the soccer scene...
...park's emergency plan to continue tracking and monitoring the gorillas even with the rebel presence has fallen through. With thousands of rebels throughout the forest, the security situation has worsened into a "no-go zone," says Lucy Fauveau of the London Zoological Society. The Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature is currently attempting to collaborate with MONUC, the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in the Congo, to provide protection to the gorillas. The U.N. employs around 17,000 peacekeepers in the Congo - the largest force of its kind worldwide. In the meantime, conservationists say they will wait...
...little bit of politics, social satire, and bawdy fun."For Chen and Polk, the creative process began with choosing the setting, and the characters and storyline followed."We sat down and thought of as many settings as we could and eventually settled on the idea of an enchanted forest," Chen says. "Then we came up with characters based on what would fit in an enchanted forest."Chen also says that character-creation isn't just about puns."You can either come up with a character by thinking of a funny pun for a name or you can think of something...