Wayanad
Wildlife Sanctuaries
Main
attractions: Fauna: Mammals: Elephants, tigers, panthers, jungle cats,
civet cats, monkeys, wild dogs, bisons, deer, bears etc. Reptiles: Monitor
lizards and a variety of snakes are seen. Birds: Peacocks, babblers,
cuckoos, owls, woodpeckers, jungle fowls are a few of the various types of
birds seen here. Flora: Teak, maruthu, karimaruthi, rosewood, venteak,
vengal, chadachi, mazhukanjiram, bamboo etc. grow in the moist deciduous
forest. Veteria indica, lagerstroemia, lanceolta, terminalia paniculata etc.
are common in the semi evergreen patches.