Kerala Tourism
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Wildlife Of Kerala
Wildlife Palakkad
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 Palakkad, Wildlife Of Kerala - Reservation Form