New Year Resolutions for Better Mental Health from Wild Animals

Some new year resolutions for better mental health from wild animals from around the world! Which ones are you adopting? Comic for DW Environment's social media.

New York Splooting Squirrels

New York's splooting squirrels WANT you to panic! Cartoon from my Gocomics page. 

Longest Hibernation and a Burning Arctic

The longest hibernating animal, the Arctic Ground Squirrel, wakes up to a rude shock. Comic from my column with The Hindu.

New Species of 2021

Just a few of the many new species discovered in 2021 congratulate our biologists, in my column with Roundglass Sustain. A very happy new year to all Green Humour readers! See you next year with new comics. 

Uses of the Flying Squirrel's Patagium

Meet the Indian Giant Flying Squirrel: ordinary squirrel by day, and gliding superhero by night, thanks to its patagia! Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-day.

Wild Tips to beat the Summer Heat

Beat the heat this summer using these simple tips from wild animals! The comic appears in my column with Sunday Mid-day.

Prints on my webstore here (for orders within India, mail me on rohanchakcartoonist@gmail.com).

IUCN Status

The comic appears in Roundglass Samsara and The Hindu BL-ink.

Binge Watching

Did you know that you can binge-watch even without being a Netflix user? From my column with Mid-day today.

Nanhi the Indian Giant Squirrel- Mascot for Satpura Tiger Reserve

Meet Nanhi the Indian Giant Squirrel, the official mascot for Satpura Tiger Reserve. Nanhi here, is seen endorsing a butterfly-watching event being hosted by the park from the 8th to the 10th of September 2017. (Registrations here).

The Satpuras, a biogeographical marvel, are a connecting link between the Western Ghats and the eastern Himalayas, and host a splendid array of wildlife unique to Central India. With a stunning diversity of butterflies (and also frogs and birds), this event is sure to pack a punch!

A big thanks to Mr. Anil Nagar, Field Director of the reserve, and the forest department of Madhya Pradesh for commissioning me for the mascot.

Switch to Estrus

Some red humour on Green Humour today, or 'Chai pe charcha' with a squirrel. Sanitary napkins are taxable commodities in India. 

To Let- Woodpecker Hole

Did you know that secondary cavity nesters like parakeets, mynas, owls, rollers and several other birds depend on woodpeckers for nesting sites? These birds compete for and occupy woodpecker holes to breed. So if you have good populations of any of these birds around where you live, you know which bird to thank!

The cartoon appears on my Gocomics page today.

Animal spines!

I'm really sorry for being so inactive lately; I've been diagnosed with a hairline crack in my sacral vertebra and have been prescribed bed rest, physiotherapy and a whole bunch of medicines for one month. Please forgive the inaction; it is likely to continue until the end of the year. But until then I thought I'd leave you all with an apt comic. A3 posters for this comic are available as prints. Email me to order yours.

Meanwhile, Green Humour has made its debut on the world comics website Gocomics! Visit http://www.gocomics.com/green-humour to read my cartoons.

Umbrella Species

In conservation, the term 'Umbrella species' refers to a species that is chosen to plan conservation-related decisions, as the protection of this species indirectly leads to the protection of many other lesser species that share its habitat. Examples other than the tiger include the Northern Spotted Owls and the endangered Bay Checkerspot Butterfly.

This work by Rohan Chakravarty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Nuts!

Caching or hoarding of food is an essential squirrel characteristic. Squirrels do this by burying food in small holes and covering them up. They may not remember all these sites, as a result of which some of the seeds buried by the animals germinate into shoots. The sites that they remember serve as reserves when food is scarce in winters. Squirrels also eat as much as they can to bulk up before the cold season and the fat reserves are an important source of energy in times of scarcity. Squirrels do not hibernate in tropical regions and may keep warm by huddling together and shivering when the temperatures drop below comfort.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.