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Sloth bear captured in the Nilgiris, released into national park
The Hindu
The bear had entered Manjoor town and was posing a threat to residents; it was captured on Wednesday morning with a cage and then released
A sloth bear that had been entering Manjoor town was captured and released inside the Mukurthi National Park early on Wednesday morning.
Officials from the Nilgiris Forest Division said that a cage had been placed to capture the bear in Manjoor Bazaar, and that the animal had entered the cage and was trapped early on Wednesday morning. The cage had been placed after complaints from local residents that the bear was entering human habitations and posing a threat to residents. Following its capture, the bear was released inside the Mukurthi National Park.
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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.