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Plum-headed #parakeet and cluster figs, created by Nirupa Rao in her book, Hidden Kingdom – Fantastical Plants of the #WesternGhats.
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It’s time for you to meet our #SpeciesOfTheWeek!
Endemic to the #WesternGhats in #Karnataka, the Kottigehar dancing frog (Micrixalus kottigeharensis), aka the Kottigehar torrent #frog, dwells in secondary #forests with vigorously flowing freshwater streams.
Art: Radha Pennathur
We’re ‘sorted’ with our #SpeciesOfTheWeek!Discovered in the #WesternGhats in 2015,the sorting hat spider (Eriovixia gryffindori)is named after the sentient sorting hat of Hogwarts,from the phenomenal #HarryPotter series by JK Rowling,for the shape it flaunts. Art: Radha Pennathur
Myristica #sapphire damselfly, endemic to the #WesternGhats, illustrated by Nirupa Rao.
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