Water monitor eating Jungle Babbler, Sundarbans

Bikramadittya G Roy


Bikramadittya G Roy

While walking around at Sajnekhali, Sundarbans, on 12th March, I heard jungle babblers crying the world deaf. I went ahead to find this water monitor swallowing the last parts of a jungle babbler, while the other birds of the flock kept on chattering loudly in alarm, flying overhead and jumping on branches. I don’t know how the seemingly sluggish monitor managed to catch a timid jungle babbler. It could be that the monitor was lying somewhere unnoticed when the poor babbler landed near him and got nailed in a split second.

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Bikramadittya G Roy
Bikramadittya is a conservation enthusiast based in Kolkata.


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