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Puducherry student travels 35,000 km to create Guinness record
The Hindu
Travelling 35,583 km, covering 23 States and four Union Territories in the country in the last five months, two persons, including a research scholar from the Department of Tourism Studies, Pondicherr
Travelling 35,583 km, covering 23 States and four Union Territories in the country in the last five months, two persons, including a research scholar from the Department of Tourism Studies, Pondicherry University, successfully completed their mission at Rameswaram on Sunday. Attempting to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, G.V. Dheelepan, the research scholar, and his associate J. Adamsonraj, an alumni of Pondicherry University, left Puducherry on February 7.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
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.