Journal of Threatened Taxa (Jan 2018)

A new sight record and range extension of the Grizzled Giant Squirrel Ratufa macroura dandolena (Mammalia: Rodentia: Sciuridae) in the Eastern Ghats of southern peninsular India

  • Sivangnanaboopathidoss Vimalraj,
  • Kothandapani Raman,
  • Damodar Atmavadan Reddy,
  • Bakthavachalam Harikrishnan,
  • Bawa Mothilal Krishnakumar,
  • Kanagaraj Muthamizh Selvan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3932.10.1.11240-11242
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 11240 – 11242

Abstract

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On our visit to the Durgai Amman shrine on 09 June 2016, we came across a pair of Grizzled Giant Squirrels on a tamarind tree, which leaped away when we approached (79.298960E & 12.176150N). We had photographed an individual before it disappeared among the trees. The sighting of the Grizzled Giant Squirrels was surprising as it had previously not been recorded; further, the forest isn’t contiguous with an earlier record of Sathanur Dam.

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