sri lanka beauty
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Sinharaja Rain forestTRANSCRIPT
Insect trapper - (Nepenthes distillatoria)The "Pitcher Plant" locally known as BANDURA, family Nepenthaceae is a creeper on shrubs and treelets. The leaf tip modified to form an elongated sac (a pitcher) filled with a liquid while traps insects to be digested by the plant. The thickened stem of the plant is used for tying, in the construction of wattle and daub houses and ladders by the natives. Usually grow along
forest margins and disturbed sites.
a view of the topography of mixed dipterocrap rainforest of the Sinharaja
Purple-faced Leaf Monkey (Presbytes senex vetulus) Purple-faced Leaf Monkey (Presbytes senex vetulus)
Felis viverinnas (Fishing Cat)
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