The animal with a blackish face (though called purple faced) tends to peep through branches. Often they are seen in batches of three to eight. They feed on tender leaves, fruits and a variety of seeds ...

As of late, when compared to past years, leopards are seen more often in Horton Plains. The increasing frequency of leopard sightings may seem like a positive development, but it may also be ...

The pop-eyed Horton Plains slender loris has been seen for the first time in 60 years—alive and cute, ... ANIMALS. Orangutan seen using medicinal plants to heal a wound for first time ever.

The Horton Plains slender loris (Loris tardigradus nycticeboides) was thought to be extinct. Between 1939 and 2002, no one spotted the animal. In 2002 someone reported a possible sighting, but ...

HORTON PLAINS, Sri Lanka — Studying animals in their wild habitat can get quite intrusive. And when that animal is a male sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) with fully grown antlers — the king of the ...

Fast moving vehicles at the Horton Plains National Park is causing serious problems to many animals that live there including the Sri Lanka dull-blue flycatcher, an endemic bird, Chathuranga ...

Horton Plains Naional Park, a world heritage environmental zone rich in biodiversity is now endangered by fast spreading invasive alien plants, much to the alarm of the environmentalists and those ...

Coming in as the top safari destination to see exotic animals and native wildlife is Australia. ... there's Horton Plains National Park, which has received great reviews on Trip Advisor.

One of the world’s rarest primates driven to the brink of extinction by Britain's taste for tea has been photographed for the first time, scientists said. This is the first time the Horton ...

The Highlands, comprising the Peak Wilderness Protected Area, Horton Plains National Park, and Knuckles Conservation Forest, was designated as a World Heritage site in 2010.