The Sundarbans mudflats are rife with tiny evolutionary curiosities that come alive with the waning tide — watch a battle in the muck, and the fine seduction of a fiddler crab
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Ashwika Kapur
is an international award-winning natural history filmmaker and a science communicator. With an innate knack for storytelling, she loves finding unexpected narratives that educate and inspire
Published: Oct 22, 2020
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