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Upto 7m of annual rainfall, much of it descending during the summer monsoon, is known to soak the Valparai region of Anamalai hills. As such, my recent visit to these hills in August, a month well within the summer Monsoon period, was accompanied by a fair share of this annual precipitation, and several creatures that thrive in the rains, represented by frogs, insects and leeches, most obviously. Highlights included sighting/photographing the uncommon Indian Brown Mongoose, Rufous Bellied & Black Eagles, Rufous Babbler, Gaur foraging in the mist, Western Ghats Flying Lizard basking on a rare sunny morning, and a couple of hairy drives on dark, very rainy, mist laden nights, where it was difficult to tell pothole ridden, narrow roads from the adjacent tire swallowing mud. Lion-tailed Macaque, Nilgiri Langur and Nilgiri Tahr, the trio of mammalian endemics the Valparai region is well known for, also duly showed up.

For a detailed report on the visit, please see: https://ficustours.in/2021/09/17/indi...