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Tag: Western Ghats

Oft-encountered “1” – bonnet macaque (#10 in series of single-image south India teasers)

 

 

 

Today’s post is the first of several to feature a species that any wildlife-seeking visitor to south India’s Western Ghats can reasonably expect to see, easily – probably, often.

Bonnet macacques are endemic to this region.

Until last year these very sociable forest-dwellers enjoyed a “least concern” conservation status.

Their numbers are currently declining, and in 2022 the IUCN reclassified their status as “vulnerable”.

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Hair-raising hairpins (#9 in series of single-image south India teasers)

 

Not all of India’s spectacular/audacious/dangerous mountain roads are Himalayan.

There are several “jaw-droppers” that grant relatively easy road access to “hill stations” in the Western Ghats.

The photo was taken from circa one third of the way up the road to Valparai, in Tamil Nadu.

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