Begur wildlife sanctury, mananthavady

Begur wildlife sanctury is an ideal spot for safari. Because there do not present rich variety of animal and plant species. But its have its own attractions. Where rich variety of animals population is present and the trees in the Begur area are said to have medicinal properties. The turists usually come across elephants, bears, bison wild dogs, and jungle cats among many other wild animals. Begur wildlife sanctury is on wayand district.The nearest railway station is thalassery in kannur district is about 80 km from mananthavady. And the nearest airport is Calicut international airport, about 106 km     

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India's Bing Cats.Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, Asiatic lion and Snow leopard

Bengal tiger   

 The term 'big cat' is used informally to distinguish the larger members of the biological family of cats (felidae) from smaller ones.Typically.most of them are able to roar and belong to the genus panthera. The big cats of India include: the Bengal tiger(panthera pardus fusca) and the snow leopard(panthera uncia).

Bengal tiger

Bengal tiger

Its commonly known as the Royal Bengal tiger,it is one of the largest and most majestic predators in the world.Its habitat ranges from the Himalayas to the rainforest of the southern western Ghats and from the dry forests of Rajasthan to the moist evergreen forests of north-east India and mangrove swamps of the sunderbans. The tiger plays a pivotal role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem.it is at the apex of the food chain , and its presence in the ecosystem. At present the tiger faces threats from poaching and habitat degradation.

                                                                        Indian leopard       
                               

Indian leopard

Indian leopard

    The leopard is the third largest of the Indian big cats, after the tiger and the lion. It is one of the most adaptable and widely distributed big cat. It is found in all type of forests in India except in the mangroves. A significant threat to the leopard is the illegal trade of its beautiful skin and its bones, which are sometimes used in oriental medicine. Leopards have come increasingly in conflit with people as their habitat shrinks and prey animals deplete.This is now a serious problem for the survival of this beautiful animals.
                                                                       
                                                                    Asiatic lion

Asiatic lion

Asiatic lion

The Asiatic lion is also known as the Indian lion, persian lion and Eurasian lion. The Asiatic lion is as large as its Africal counterpart, but has a scantier mane.it also has a distinct fold of skin running along the belly which Africal lion rarely have. Lions are highly social animal and the only big cats that live in group called 'prides'. They are also the only cat species in which male and female look distinctly different.

                                                                      Snow leopard
                               

Snow leopard

Snow leopard

This beautiful high altitude cat is very difficult to sight and is one of the most elusive cats in the world. In India its geographical range encompasses a large part of the wester Himalayas, including the states of jammu and Kashmir, Himachal predesh and uttarakhand.They are also found in sikkim and Arunachal predesh in the eastern Himalayas. The animal is most active at dawn and dusk.Like most species of cats, snow leopards are solitary animal.


   

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Simple method to protect wildlife

IUCN Red Data book

We all love the wildlife photos, documentaries and the TV shows etc..
Also we all are talked about it.

In our universe the humans activities inversely effect the wildlife. we all go shopping and buy food and products that contribute directly to their decline.

All the people's know the thing we buy that damage, directly or indirectly, to the universe. the things are plastic, palm oil or have be using growing pesticides etc.....

The bottom line is that we have the intelligence and the technical backup to search for information...and we all have the freedom of choices to make decisions and changes. If we all made a few changes and spent the money we have in our pockets in a more wildlife or human friendly way we would collectively make a changes.

The  ways to protect our ecosystem are Painting our house  Using a latex paint. ...Get a tune-up. Properly maintained vehicles get better gas mileage and emit fewer pollutants. Don't top off your gas tank. ...Conserve energy. ...Don't burn your yard waste. ...Plant a tree. ...Park the car.

This protections are not for our life.  this is for the new generations. I know this is not easy to make changes and that the more ethical and environmentally sound choices are often more expensive. But with out the ecosystem the earth is empty. But with out money earth do not empty.
Try to save our wildlife.

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Shot note about giraffe's

Giraffe

Giraffe is the tallest living terrestrial animal.The genus currently consists of one species,Giraffacamelopardalis, The type species.Giraffe's neck weight around 600 pounds(272kg) and 1.8 meter long.Giraffe's heart approximately 2 feet(0.6meters) and its weight 25 pounds(11kg).Also its lungs can hold 55liters of air.Giraffes allso called "camel leopard". Because it has a hump on their back  similar that of leopard.

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Shot note on Snakes

Snake

    Snakes are carnivorous reptiles of the suborder serpentes.Also its legless and elongated. Snakes are ectothermic,amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaw. Some species retain a pelvic gridle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies with out limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty five times independently via convergent evaluation, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. Legless lizards resemble snake, but several common group of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal.

Snakes

             Living snakes do not found in Antarctica,Ireland,Green land,New zeland and some islands.
Most species are nonvenomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self-defense. Some possess venom potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans.And the Nonvenomous Snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by construction. The fossil evidence said that sankes are originated from burrowing lizzards, such as the vavanids during the cretaceous period.

Snakes

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African Elephants

African elephant's

African elephant is very different from other elephants.It has elongated nose and upper lip for smelling. When an elephant drinks, it sucks as much as 2 gallons (7.5 liters) of water into its trunk at a time. Then it curls its trunk under, sticks the tip of its trunk into its mouth, and blows. Out comes the water, right down the elephant's throat. Since African elephants live where the sun is usually blazing hot, they use their trunks to help them keep cool. First they squirt a trunkful of cool water over their bodies. Then they often follow that with a sprinkling of dust to create a protective layer of dirt on their skin. Elephants pick up and spray dust the same way they do water—with their trunks.

Family of elephant

Group of African elephants

African elephants are more strong. Elephants also use their trunks as snorkels when they wade in deep water. An elephant's trunk is controlled by many muscles. Two fingerlike parts on the tip of the trunk allow the elephant to perform delicate maneuvers such as picking a berry from the ground or plucking a single leaf off a tree. Elephants can also use its trunk to grasp an entire tree branch and pull it down to its mouth and to yank up clumps of grasses and shove the greenery into their mouths.
When an elephant gets a whiff of something interesting, it sniffs the air with its trunk raised up like a submarine periscope.If threatened, an elephant will also use its trunk to make loud trumpeting noises as a warning.

African elephant

African elephant
Elephants are social creatures. They sometimes hug by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection. Elephants also use their trunks to help lift or nudge an elephant calf over an obstacle, to rescue a fellow elephant stuck in mud, or to gently raise a newborn elephant to its feet. And just as a human baby sucks its thumb, an elephant calf often sucks its trunk for comfort. One elephant can eat 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food in one day.
 

African elephant

People hunt elephants mainly for their ivory tusks. Adult females and young travel in herds, while adult males generally travel alone or in groups of their own.

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Kadalundi Bird Sancturies

                                       

Entrance of kadalundi bird sanctuary

Kadalundi Bird Sanctuary is the bird watchers paradise as it provides shelters to more than hundred verities of migratory and native birds.

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