An animal I really want to see?

It’s not the tiger – I have never been lucky enough to see one in the wild and I have never gone to Ranthambhore looking for one. I believe my time will come and I shall wait for it.

The creature I’m looking for is a rare little rodent (probably nocturnal) called the Malabar Spiny Dormouse (Platacanthomys lasiurus). I have seen only one picture of it (on India Nature Watch).

The Malabar Spiny Dormouse is the only living representative of its genus and has been reported from Kalakad Mundunthurai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu.

So, if you see one, let me know.

Bijoy Venugopal

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    Founder-editor of The Green Ogre, Beej began this blog as a solo writing project in 2006. A communications professional, he has worked as a corporate storyteller, journalist, travel writer, cartoonist and photo-blogger. He is an active birder and citizen science enthusiast.

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4 thoughts on “An animal I really want to see?

  1. @Kalyan:
    Divya at NCF, Valparai showed me the picture of the Spiny Dormouse that you had taken. Well, maybe that’s not a ‘good’ photograph by your lofty standards but I thought it was a very good one. 🙂

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