You sometimes feel a sense of oddness in a forest—maybe a
sensation of something on your skin, or a pair of disembodied eyes watching.
After almost three decades as a researcher and conservation biologist,
Krishnamani Ramanathan is now at home in an environment that he first found
eerie.
Once, resting after following a troupe of primates in
Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka, he felt something on his leg. He was
in shorts and chappals. He thought it was a trickle of water. When h