{"content":[{"text":"FASCINATING WORLD OF ANIMALS AND INSECTS","bbox":{"left":0.083568,"top":0.082066,"width":0.834332,"height":0.026304999999999995}},{"text":"PADMA RAJAGOPAL","bbox":{"left":0.384474,"top":0.131172,"width":0.232734,"height":0.018413000000000013}},{"text":"Introduction \n As the human population on earth keeps increasing every second there is greater and greater \n pressure on all the resources. More and more land is grabbed by man for cultivation or habitation, \n and in the name of progress and development there is a large scale destruction of forests, \n mountains, low-lands, lakes, rivers and even the shore lines. It is no wonder that a large number \n of animal and plant species have disappeared and more and more species continue to disappear \n every day. In the race for his own survival and well being and to a great extent due to his \n selfishness and greed Man has totally forgotten that the millions of species of plants and animals \n inhabiting the earth and which were there millions of years before man came on the scene, have \n an equal if not greater right to survive. By this ruthless destruction of nature and natural life and \n the ever increasing pollution of air, water and land, man may ultimately end up destroying even \n mankind! Only recently there have been some serious attempts to conserve nature and natural \n life. There is a great need to develop interest among the younger generation in particular, to \n know something about the animals and plants and to create an awareness to treat them as co- \n inhabitants of our planet and to protect them. \n Children invariably show keen interest in anything strange and fascinating. Very few of us are \n aware of the enormous diversity of the plant and animals life around us, the innumerable \n fascinating facts about animals—what ingenious methods they adopt to get their food, what \n strange and beautiful homes they build without any instruction or learning, how they court and \n breed, how some of them take care of their young, what extraordinary senses some of them \n possess, what strange tactics they adopt to protect themselves from their enemies and predators, \n unbelievable relationships they strike with one another for mutual benefit, social behaviour of \n the highest order exhibited by some, uncanny migrations over thousands of miles by many birds \n and some fishes, and numerous other behavioural oddities. This book describes without going \n into lengthy details interesting and fascinating facts individually with illustrations about a variety \n of animals. \n The author, Padma Rajagopal was a distinguished and popular teacher of Biology and a gifted \n writer of books on animals for children. All the items found in this book were her contributions \n to the “Playtime” page of the SUNDAY STATESMAN from August 1959 to April 1970 and to the \n same page of the JUNIOR STATESMAN from May 1970 to July 1977. The kind permission \n accorded by the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of The STATESMAN to reprint them in \n book form is gratefully acknowledged.","bbox":{"left":0.06118,"top":0.176209,"width":0.8799699999999999,"height":0.652182}},{"text":"It is hoped that his book will capture the imagination of children and create an awareness in \n them to strive to protect all animals and plants so as to allow these to share our planet not only \n with us but with the future generations as well. \n R. RAJAGOPAL","bbox":{"left":0.06118,"top":0.860147,"width":0.879906,"height":0.08340000000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}