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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