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Psychologists reach out to traumatised flood victims
The Hindu
The WCOP announced that it will conduct a medical camp in the cluster of villages soon.
Members of World Congress of Psychologists (WCOP) made a visit to the flood - hit villages near Rayalacheruvu in Chittoor district to provide succour to the traumatised residents.
In the aftermath of the floods that rocked the district last fortnight, the psychologists reached out to the water body built during the Vijayanagara dynasty, spread across an extent of 1,200 acres and running to a depth of up to 50 feet, that overflowed and flooded the villages downstream, causing panic and mental trauma to the residents for days together.
WCOP president B. Govinda Reddy and executive committee member P. Venu reached out to the 300 families that were rendered homeless in the affected villages.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.