{"id":2449,"date":"2019-03-12T18:01:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:31:24","slug":"wood-snake-last-seen-in-1878-rediscovered-by-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wood-snake-last-seen-in-1878-rediscovered-by-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood snake, last seen in 1878, rediscovered by scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A survey conducted in the Meghamalai Wildlife\nSanctuary has rediscovered <em>Xylophis indicus, <\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;species of wood snake. It is endemic to the\nMeghamalai forests and the Periyar Tiger Reserve landscape.<\/li><li>The species of the wood snake was last spotted\nand documented in 1878 by Colonel Richard Henry Beddome, a British military\nofficer and naturalist. <\/li><li>The Meghamalai wildlife sanctuary is located in\nWestern Ghats in Theni District, Tamil Nadu. It shares its boundaries with\nSrivilliputhur Grizzled Squirrel Sanctuary and Periyar Tiger Reserve <\/li><li>The Periyar Tiger Reserve lies in the Western\nGhats in the Idukki District, Kerala. The reserve lies along the watershed of\nthe Periyar and Pamba rivers. In 1978, the Periyar sanctuary was declared as a\nTiger Reserve under Project Tiger.<\/li><li>The\nGrizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary (GSWS), also known as Srivilliputhur\nWildlife Sanctuary is located in the districts of Virudhunagar and Madurai of Tamil Nadu. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey conducted in the Meghamalai Wildlife Sanctuary has rediscovered Xylophis indicus, &nbsp;&nbsp;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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wood-snake-last-seen-in-1878-rediscovered-by-scientists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wood snake, last seen in 1878, rediscovered by scientists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4240,4241],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-meghamalai-wildlife-sanctaury","tag-wood-snake","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704716956},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}