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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