Sahir Doshi

Jungle son of India. Former: Conservation Policy Team @AmProg & Policy Fellow @TheWCS. Photos mine unless credited. Updating prani quest (pinned post) for 2024!

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

Samundari salam! For Ocean Month, I’m doing a series on IG that I want to share with my #IndiAves and other fam here.

It’s a spinoff of Pratidin Prani. Each day, I’m finding and rapping (haan ji) about a different marine species in Mumbai 😁

See Episode 1 linked in the comment!

[Shaunak Modi @Pugdandee]

Juhu beach was an Olive Ridley nesting site until the late '80s. It is not unfathomable that turtles have been nesting on Mumbai's beaches but we haven't been paying attention. This needs urgent attention and intervention from the authorities!

[Shaunak Modi @Pugdandee]

Second Olive Ridley turtle trying to nest at Juhu beach chased away by people this month. We know of at least 3 such cases from just this month.

It's time to stop treating these as freak instances and maybe think of our beaches as turtle nesting sites!

https://t.co/ZqA627r0y6

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@Nationalist2575 Hi the photographer of this is Harshal Malvankar who runs Share Your Safari. Pls credit!

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@lolwutnopewtf @gauravsabnis @NeeloySany91425 Kombdi has Persian root? Sounds very deshaj and the internet suggests there are Sanskrit/Prakrit root.

I’m only curious about the etymology point since chickens (whether eaten or not) were domesticated here from the native junglefowl that is not found west or north of us.

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@gauravsabnis The media is absolutely missing this all over the place and Indian media OFC is the worst of all. This election is purely a story of the failure of the Democrats. The story of Trump’s appeal belongs in 2016 and 2020 if anything.

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@krish_bohra This is likely a bigger deal but I can’t lie and tell you my soul didn’t - for one second - DANCE thinking this was arkive with a K 😂

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@gauravsabnis And also in pointlessly polluting their own bodies with microplastics and other endocrine-disrupting and possibly carcinogenic ick from the bottles :(

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

It’s getting rarer and rarer that I post here but this is a special one to share with my original online nature space - #IndiAves.

BAMBOO SHARK IN MUMBAI!

One of the carpet sharks, a group of mostly small bottom-dwellers. I say “mostly” because of one big exception. Guess who?

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

Samundari salam! For Ocean Month, I’m doing a series on IG that I want to share with my #IndiAves and other fam here.

It’s a spinoff of Pratidin Prani. Each day, I’m finding and rapping (haan ji) about a different marine species in Mumbai 😁

See Episode 1 linked in the comment!

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@krish_bohra If you’re reading 50 self-help books a year with some kind of Pareto principle hope that you’ll eventually find the one idea that sets you up for success…

You’ve already missed the way more obvious idea to just read 50 summaries instead 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@Sahastheherp Can also see the case for WG to also be called Indian king cobra as an alternate common name. The way we call Madras treeshrew as “Indian treeshrew” even though northern treeshrew also has its range in Northeast. Or “indian giant flying squirrel” despite red ranging into NE.

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@Sahastheherp Gotta be the WG! Endemic, distinct AF, and kinda the hero of the story of the split.

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@rishpardikar @mondalsudipto 🙌🏽🙌🏽🫡🫡

[WCS-India @WCSIndia]

#WeAreHiring!

We're on the lookout for two Field Interns to join our Forest Owlet Project. As a field intern, you will assist in surveying & monitoring Forest Owlets, collecting data, & supporting community outreach programs to raise awareness about Forest Owlet conservation.

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@Paiganesh905Pai Congrats and best of luck, Ganeshbhai. You’ll do amazing

[The Thinking Tiger @krish_bohra]

Two Wild Buffalo Calves Born, Kindle Hope of Conservation in Chhattisgarh https://t.co/y3wqNzjQ1d

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@manishariprasad Absolutely unreal. Can I ask which park

[The Thinking Tiger @krish_bohra]

According to John Anderson (1879) Ganga river dolphin had a wide range across Ganga and Brahmaputra (and the connecting rivers). They could be easily seen in Yamuna and Hooghly, even in the cities of Delhi and Kolkata.

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@JeremyBRoberts @science_barbie Ahh thank you so much for the insight. It mostly surprised me because we always see them inside crevices here, not often out in the open. Definitely makes sense for the small ones to be juveniles. TY 🙏🏽

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

Moray eel experts! Can you help explain what’s going on between these two I saw in a rock pool in Mumbai?

There was a third small one a rock away.

October is presumed breeding season here as sightings (esp. juveniles) increase now.

Courtship/territoriality? #IndiAves

[Sahir Doshi @SahirDoshi]

@amabirdman YES!