Home to Mount Everest and seven other of the world’s 14 highest peaks, Nepal offers some of the most spectacular landscapes on the planet. Take time out from the historic monuments and temples of Kathmandu to gaze on mountain splendour from Pokhara and trek the Annapurna Circuit, stay in a traditional Sherpa house once beloved by Sir Edmund...

Track tigers on foot through the jungles of Nepal with Tiger Tops, the first ethical elephant experience in the nation. I stayed at Tharu Lodge in Chitwan National Park and Karnali Lodge in Bardia National Park during my trip to Nepal and was rewarded with a wild tiger sighting on one of my last days of safari. We’d spent afternoons picnicking...

What an experience this was. Pure wildlife experience... This trip makes me want to live my retired life as a wildlife photographer. We stayed in the world famous Tiger tops and this place doesn’t have a fence that separates it from the forest and we actually spotted a leopard in the lodge.. This place doesn’t promote AC or WiFi in the...

Whether a vocalization is emitted though the mouth or nose impacts on its acoustic shape through specific vocal tract resonances. In human language, nasalized compared to oral vowels can change the meaning of words. African elephants mainly use low-frequency rumbles to communicate and can utter them either through the mouth or trunk.  Click...

With the help of an acoustic camera that visualizes sound pressure, researchers from the University of Vienna investigated the calls of Asian elephants. The elephants emitted their low frequency "rumbles" mainly through their trunk or through their mouth and trunk simultaneously, and only seldomly through their mouth alone. This is the...

New year, new travel plans? In this uncertain time, the desire to experience the world and satiate our long-suppressed wanderlust remains undeterred, and, if anything, enhanced. To that end, we’ve listed our top 22 places to visit in 2022, in the hopes that this coming year will kick-start the travel goals we’ve put on hold for the past...