The mugger crocodile, also called "marsh crocodile”, have been documented using lures to hunt birds. This means they are among the first reptiles recorded to use tools. By balancing sticks and branches on their heads, they lure birds that are looking for nesting material. This strategy is particularly effective during the nesting season. It is extinct in Bhutan and Myanmar and has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1982.

The red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus) are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud alarm calls are indicators of human or animal movements and the sounds have been variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it, call uttered both in the day and night. Like other lapwings, they soak their belly feathers to provide water to their chicks as well as to cool the eggs during hot weather. The local onomatopoeic name in Hindi is titeeri.

Chambal valley, is an unexplored territory infamously known as the land of dacoits. The land is full of deep ravines and forests which were the hiding places of these dacoits. The ravines of Chambal cover the areas of three states of India- Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Nirbhay Singh Gurjar aka Baagi was one of the last dacoits of the Chambal with 205 criminal cases against him. The name of the valley comes from the name of - Chambal River, which provides housing to a variety of wildlife including the once endangered Gharial.