Palakkad
Wildlife Sanctuary
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Silent Valley National Park (40 km from Mannarghat)
Main attractions: Elephants, tigers, wild boars, flying squirrels, lion tailed
macaques and king cobras.
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Wildlife Sanctuary (40 km from Mannarghat)
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.