J. Leona Princy

Government Arts College,Udhagamandalam · Zoology and Wildlife Biology

This study was conducted on a 30 km stretch of the Coonoor Ghat National Highway 67 (Coonoor– Burliar – Kallar – Mettupalayam) over a one-year period from October 2016 to September 2017 to assess the impact of vehicular traffic on nocturnal mammals. During twice-monthly surveys (24 in total) an observer and driver rode a motorbike at 10–15 km/h, an...

The Nilgiri Marten Martes gwatkinsii Horsfield, 1851 is a mustelid endemic to the Western Ghats (8.31667-21.26667° N), a range of low mountains in southwest India and a global biodiversity hotspot. It is one of the rarest and least known species of martens in the world. The present study focused on the status, distribution, altitudinal variation an...

The present record of lchthyophis bombayensis form the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve shows the new locality record of lchthyophis bombayensis from the Western Ghats region. Further studies are required to understand the better distribution of this species in Tamil Nadu state

Albinism is a hypo-pigmentary disorder with a total lack of melanins in hairs, eyes, and skin due to the heritable absence of functional tyrosinase enzyme in pigment cells affecting all skin and hairs, resulting in a total white fur with red eyes. On 10th August 2019, 11:30 am during a fieldwork we recorded an albino male wild boar in Sathyamangala...

Article Leucism is expressed as the almost total decoloration of certain or whole parts of the body, but preserving the typical color of eyes, nails, and skin. This note highlights the occurrence of leucism in three-stripes palm squirrel in Upper Nilgiris region, Tamil Nadu, India

Article The construction of a road, directly and indirectly, impacts on the ecosystems where the road is built. The present survey was conducted to estimate the road kills on the state highways passing through between the district Udhagamandalam and Mettupalayam (55 km). Tamil Nadu, India. The road kills were monitored three times a month between A...

Semnopithecus priam is a Near Threatened species found in southern India and Sri Lanka. On 25 July 2020, a melanistic S. priam individual was observed in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India. This observation revealed that it is the first known case of melanism in Semnopithecus priam in India and its distributional range.

In this note reported on dilution in Fulvous breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos macei in Hamirpur (31. 686N & 76. 521E), in Himachal Pradesh, India. It is situated in the Shivalik Hills of Himalaya.

House sparrows Passer domesticus are the commonest and widest distributed bird species in nature. House sparrow numbers have declined by about 60% in urban and suburban areas and the habitat composition and quality in urban suburban landscapes is likely to have changed over this period. In large cities, the number of house sparrows decreased signif...

Nesting Behaviour of House Sparrow in Urban gradient in Nilgiris

The current study will be aimed to investigate the survey on the status and Distribution of Indian Pangolin in Nilgiri Eastern Ghats Landscapes. Southern India.

Nesting behaviour of Blue Rock Pigeon in Urban Environment in Nilgiris

This study was undertaken to assess the threat from road kills for three-striped palm squirrels in the tropical forest of Sigur plateau, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, and Southern India from January 2014 to December 2016. Road kills were recorded along the Udhagamandalam to Masinagudi state highway passing through Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (40...

The present study recorded a total of 174 incidences of vertebrate fauna. Of which, reptiles (39.65%) were more percentage followed by mammals (33.33%), birds (19.54%) and amphibians (7.47%). Among birds House sparrow was severely affected followed by Eurasian collard dove, Jungle babbler, Common myna, Red vented bulbul, Francolin, Laughing dove we...

A total of 82 individuals Indian giant squirrel in a 68 sighting were recorded in 200km of total transects with the encounter rate of 0.41 individuals per km. 9 species of nesting trees were identified a total of 48 nesting trees contained 61 numbers of nests in 20km transect with an average of 3.05 nests per km and 2.4 nesting trees per km. Termin...

The present study aimed to estimate population status, habitat utilization and threats to Indian peafowl in Sigur Plateau, Tamil Nadu on November 2016 to March 2017. A total of 1091 individuals of peafowls were recorded in 487 sightings in 1080 km (2.28±0.05) with the encounter rate of 1.01 individuals/km. In Dry Deciduous Forest a total of 570 ind...

The genus Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1880 remains one of the most poorly known genera of geckos. So far, Hemiphyllodactylus aurantiacus (Beddome, 1870), the Southern Indian half leaf-fingered gecko (also known as the southern ghats slender gecko), has been reported only from few locations in southern Indian states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka an...

This note reports the largest specimen of Bibron’s Coral Snake recorded till date.

The genus Raorchestes is characterized by direct development. Knowledge on biology of the Western Ghats amphibians is rather poor, particularly studies on reproductive behavior are missing for many species. Reliable records of direct development on land are available from species of the genus Raorchestes. We observed the egg development of endemic...

The construction of a road, directly and indirectly, impacts on the ecosystems where the road is built. Highways passing through national reserves/wildlife sanctuaries have an adverse impact on wild animals. The present survey was conducted to estimate the road kills on the state highways passing through the Nilgiri north territorial forest divisio...

Conserving animals outside the protected areas is known as ex situ conservation. Biology of the Western Ghats amphibians is less explored subject, particularly with regard to reproductive behaviour. In the present study development and hatching success of an endemic frog to Pykara, The Nilgiris, Western Ghats were achieved. Egg mass of frog found n...