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The latest Google Doodle marks the 63rd year of the Republic of India. The Doodle depicts three elephants decked in finery, each with two children and a tricoloured umbrella on it's back, a reference to the Bravery Awardees who take part in the Republic Day parade. The Doodle is clickable, but does not play video or audio as previous clickable Doodles did. Instead, it leads to a search result page with news and information about Republic Day. India's Republic Day commemorates the date that the Constitution Of India was enacted and became the document that governed the country. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Assembly's 308 members signed two handwritten copies of the new Constitution, an English and a Hindi version, and two days later the Constitution became the law. Drafted by a committee headed by B R Ambedkar, the Constitution replaced the Government Of India Act Of 1935 that had previously governed colonial India, and declared the country a

Dian Fossey sits with mountain gorillas in the Virunga mountains in Rwanda in 1982. Photograph: Associated Press Dian Fossey, the American zoologist who was murdered in   Rwanda   in 1985 after a long battle to protect mountain gorillas, has been celebrated in a   Google doodle . Fossey, who would have been 82 on Thursday, was born in San Francisco on January 1932 and educated at the University of California. The doodle features the African mountains and gorillas that featured strongly in her life. Fossey studied mountain gorillas for 18 years and her work and experience contributed to her 1983 book Gorillas in the Mist. The book was made into a film with Sigourney Weaver taking the role of Fossey. Fossey was inspired to study in   Africa   by Louis and Mary Leakey. While studying the gorillas, she had a constant battle with poachers, many of whom she helped jail. Some of the gorillas she studied, in particular Digit in 1978, died in trying to protect their relatives from