 Have you heard about slender laurus? It is regarded as one of the farmer's best friend. Now the slender laurus was in news frequently because India's first slender laurus sanctuary has been notified by Tamil Nadu government. Do you want to know why slender laurus is regarded as farmer's friend? Then, why don't watch in this video. See slender laurus is a small nocturnal arboreal species found normally in the southern part of India and Sri Lanka. Here nocturnal means those species which are active at night. Also the term arboreal means the species which is generally living in the trees. So from this we can say that slender laurus is primarily active at night which also lives in tree. Now here you might have a doubt why the specific species is considered very significant and an entire sanctuary is notified for this species. See this is because of the only reason that slender laurus they act as a biological predator of pest which is helping farmer communities a lot. So that is why conservation of this species became very important. See just now we talked about conservation right? Then we have to know about the IUCN status of the species. So what is it? See the IUCN has listed them as endangered whereas they are listed under scheduled one of the wildlife protection after of India 1972 which means they have highest level of legal protection and remember slender laurus they also find mentioned in the appendix 2 of the sites convention. So now going on see the genus slender has two different species associated with it. They are gray slender laurus and red slender laurus. Let me give you the geographical extension of these two species. See this gray slender laurus it is found in both South India and Sri Lanka while red slender laurus is found in Sri Lanka alone and the sanctuary which article mentions is dedicated to the gray slender laurus. So now let us see some of the strange fact about this species. See this slender laurus they do urinate washing of their face and limbs. They are doing this with the thought to soothe or defend against the sting of the toxic insects which they prefer to eat okay and also remember the females give birth to normally one and rarely two infants at one time. The mother carries the infants constantly during the first few weeks after birth. The lifespan of the species varies between 12 to 15 years. See make note of all these points as this species is living only in South Asia it becomes very important to know about this species. So this is regarding slender laurus so through this discussion we could briefly understand about the species slender laurus its geographical extent and we also saw some of the strange facts about this species. So to get more updates about important articles in the news don't forget to subscribe to Shankar Ayes academy youtube channel.