Sri Lanka Beauty

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Sinharaja Rain forest

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Insect trapper - (Nepenthes distillatoria)The "Pitcher Plant" locally known as BANDURA, family Nepenthaceae is a creeper on shrubs and treelets. The leaf tip modified to form an elongated sac (a pitcher) filled with a liquid while traps insects to be digested by the plant. The thickened stem of the plant is used for tying, in the construction of wattle and daub houses and ladders by the natives. Usually grow along

forest margins and disturbed sites. 

a view of the topography of mixed dipterocrap rainforest of the Sinharaja

Purple-faced Leaf Monkey (Presbytes senex vetulus)  Purple-faced Leaf Monkey (Presbytes senex vetulus) 

Felis viverinnas (Fishing Cat)

Sri Lanka Blue Magpie-(Urocissa ornata) Sri Lanka Blue Magpie-(Urocissa ornata)

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