N.A. NASEER shoots animals. In all his treks through the Western Ghats for nearly 15 years, he had come across the Nilgiri marten only once before

A "CLOUD goat" looks as if lost in a daydream with her cuddly kid, an epitome of innocence, lying beside. The mother goat fondles and shields her, though no alarm is raised when a stranger intrudes and whoops. If the nanny could speak, she would ask anyone standing nearby, "Could you get me a rocking cradle to lull my baby to sleep"?