Tag: Meghamalai wildlife sanctaury

A survey conducted in the Meghamalai Wildlife Sanctuary has rediscovered Xylophis indicus,   species of wood snake. It is endemic to the Meghamalai forests and the Periyar Tiger Reserve landscape. The species of the wood snake was last spotted and documented in 1878 by Colonel Richard Henry Beddome, a British military officer and naturalist. The Meghamalai… Continue reading Wood snake, last seen in 1878, rediscovered by scientists