Oriental biodiversity
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Colourful Layard's squirrel (Funambulus layardi)
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Layard's squirrel is a small, colourful squirrel unique to Sri Lanka. It is quite small, about 100g and is confined to the wet zone forests of Sri Lanka that barely cover ...
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Wild Chicken (Sri Lanka Junglefowl)
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The Sri Lanka Jungle-fowl (Gallus lafayetii) is of the same genus as the domestic chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus. As you may know, the ancestral species of the domestic...
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Sri Lanka Rufous Babbler
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Also known as the orange billed babbler (Turdoides rufescens), this is a rare bird that is found only in the remaining 2% of the rain-forests in the island (it is endemic t...
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You scratch my back (babbler style)
Pothila
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The Sri Lanka rufous babbler, also known as the Orange billed babbler (Turdoides rufescens) is related to the Yellow billed babbler (Turdoides affinis). Both engage in gro...
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Red backed woodpecker
Pothila
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The red backed woodpecker is now known as the lesser flameback, or the Black-rumped flameback (Dinopium benghalense psarodes). The first three continuous movie clips were ...
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Stuff1: The Perfect Wallet
Pothila
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My search for the perfect wallet in London, suitable for a smart swipe card like Oyster. I'm delighted to reveal that the Debenham's Mantaray brand is supposed to be suppo...
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The road to Jaffna
Pothila
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On the road to Jaffna somewhere between Mankulam and Vavuniya around 24th July 2011. This journey was made to take part in a sponsored walk to raise money for a Cancer cha...
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Baby spectacled cobra (Naja naja)
Pothila
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This is an extended version of the shorter cobra film already uploaded. It incorporates the shorter film. You can see that this is a baby through a macro lens and the spe...
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Large Millipede
Pothila
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This millipede was filmed at the floor of Sinharaja rainforest in Sri Lanka. Can you identify the species for me? It was raining, wet and generally subdued. The creature...
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Baby cobra
Pothila
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Yes this is only a baby about a foot long. Filmed with a macro lens. This is a poisonous snake and provided an adult performance when confronting danger. It only has on...
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