Horton Plains has been recognised as one of the best nature reserves ... 15 stamp – can be spotted at dusk. The dark brown big belly animal is around 102cm – 160cm in height. A full bodied sambur is ...

And in this case, the world is limited to high cloud forests in the Horton Plains area (map) of central Sri Lanka—the animal's only known habitat. "Potentially this is the rarest primate we're ...

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 ...

Thus, this type of habituation at the Horton Plains National Park may have implications for leopard behaviour – these animals could exhibit a higher tolerance for humans on foot and not see humans as ...

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 ...

See All Key Ideas 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 ...

Credit: Photo: ZSL The Horton Plains slender loris has been so elusive ... managed to capture the world's first pictures of the rare animal during research aimed at quantifying how many species ...

Horton Plains Naional Park ... said these pose a threat to the park’s sensitive biodiversity, and plants and animal species endemic to this highly sensitive enviornmental zone would be highly ...

and free safari bus and animal talks. Elsewhere, in Sri Lanka, there's Horton Plains National Park, which has received great reviews on Trip Advisor. "Did the 10km circular hike - took three hours ...