Palakkad Wildlife Sanctuaries
Silent Valley National Park (40 km from Mannarghat):
Main
attractions: Elephants, tigers, wild boars, flying squirrels, lion tailed macaques
and king cobras.
Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary
Main attractions:
Fauna:
Mammals: Bonnet macaques, lion, tailed
macaques, Nilgiri langurs, loris, tigers, lwopards, jungle cats, mongoose, focen,
bears, elephants, gaurs, Nilgiri tahrs, spotted deer, sambar, barking deer,
wild boars, pangolins etc.
Reptiles: Crocodiles, varanur pond terrapins,
cane trutiles, geckoes, skunks, chameleons, snakes like king cobras, spectacled
cobras, kraits, vipers, pythons, green keel backs, rat snakes, vine snakes.
Fishes: Arals, brals, vatudis, thilopias, noovis, mooshus, poochittis,
kollotties, exypriuses, tarals, mahaseer etc. Capped kingfisher, great Indian
bombills, broad billed rollers, back woodpeckers.
Flora: Neem, nanjanathi,
sandal, dendrocalamus and bamboosa arundinacea, teak, vengal, muzhukanjiram,
maruthu, vaka, mulluvenga, rosewood, manjakadambu pala, elavu, vembu, aval,
vanteak… A gaint teak, 40 m high and 6.4 m in girth and apthy named kannimaram
the first tree, stands as a monuments of the past.
Trekking trails: Dhoni, Seethakundu and Govindamalai hills.
Wildlife in Kerala
Kadalundi
Bird Sanctuary || Chinnar
Wildlife Sanctuary || Thiruvananthpuram
Wildlife Sanctuaries || Kollam
Wildlife Santuaries || Kottayam
Wildlife Santuaries || Idukki
Wildlife Santuaries || Ernakulam
Wildlife Santuaries || Thrissur
Bird Santuaries || Palakkad
Wildlife Santuaries || Wayanad
Wildlife Santuaries || Peechi
Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary || Shendurni
Wildlife Sanctaury || Thattekkad
Bird Sanctuary || Aaralam
Wildlife Sanctuary || Kumarakom
Bird Sanctuary || Rajamala
Wildlife Sanctuary || Silent
Valley National Park || Peppara
Wildlife Sanctuary || Periyar
Wildlife Sanctuary || Parambikulam
Wildlife Sanctuary || Neyyar
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