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The is a small and slender member of the family and is to the Indian subcontinent.

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2022-09-15

Our laughingthrush,lives in dense forest patches of high elevations in Nilgiri & Wayanad.Has rufous underparts,olive-brown upper parts,white eyebrow,black throat & olive-brown tail,it is omnivorous–feeds on insects, nectar & berries.
Art:Jessica Luis
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2021-12-09

Our found in Southeast Asia, is walking catfish, a freshwater air breathing catfish species with an elongated body. It dwells mostly in stagnant such as swamps, ponds, streams & where water is slow-moving.

Radha Pennathur
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2021-12-02

A large-eyed small-eared flat-faced round-headed woolly furred Nocturnal & arboreal,Bengal slow loris/northern slow loris is found in Indian subcontinent & Indochina.Inhabits evergreen & deciduous forests,prefers dense rainforest canopies.
Art:Shivangi Pant
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2021-09-23

Time to meet our 

Boldly marked with vertical stripes & found in rivers & streams, the zebra loach is a bottom-dwelling A shy species, it is known to feed on live food including snails, black worms and small shrimps.

 Jessica Luis


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2021-09-02

Meet our magnificent
Second in size only to the Asian among terrestrial land mammals found in Asia, the flaunts a single horn that’s present in both males and females.
Shivangi Pant
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2021-08-26

Have you met our yet?
The only Nepenthes species found in India, ‘Nepenthes khasiana’ pitcher is a rare tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Khasi Hills (a low mountain formation on the Shillong Plateau in Meghalaya).
Art: Jessica Luis

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2021-08-05

Here's our a distinct,deep-red to orange coloured naked head, red-headed vulture(aka Asian king vulture,Pondicherry vulture,Indian black vulture)is found mainly in India,with small populations in parts of Southeast Asia.Has no subspecies.
Art:Shivangi Pant

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2021-06-24

It’s time for you to meet our
Endemic to the in the Kottigehar dancing frog (Micrixalus kottigeharensis), aka the Kottigehar torrent dwells in secondary with vigorously flowing freshwater streams.
Art: Radha Pennathur

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2021-05-27

Our is an Old World you'll never forget if you see it once.Found in rainforests of the Western Ghats of India, lion-tailed macaque (LTM) is an unmistakable presence with black body & face, and the silver-white mane around its face. Art: Shivangi Pant
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2021-05-06

We’re ‘sorted’ with our in the in 2015,the sorting hat spider (Eriovixia gryffindori)is named after the sentient sorting hat of Hogwarts,from the phenomenal series by JK Rowling,for the shape it flaunts. Art: Radha Pennathur

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2021-04-29

Flaunting black plumage and yellow bill and a large, mainly black casque, the Malabar pied hornbill is a large hornbill and is also known as lesser pied hornbill. A tropical near-passerine avian of the Old World, it inhabits evergreen & moist deciduous forests.

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2021-03-11



Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon)

This fossil tooth belonged to a giant shark commonly referred to as Megalodon. One of the largest apex predators to exist, a female Megalodon could grow to 18 m and weigh over 45,000 kg.

[Photo: S. Humphreys]

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2020-03-18



King beetle (Anoplognathus viridiaeneus)

The King beetle is the largest of the Sydney Christmas beetles (there are 35 species of Christmas beetle). Vibrant in colour, adults emerge close to the Christmas period. Larvae are white and c-shaped.

Photo:M. Beatson

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2020-03-12