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.
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