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Nilgiri Tahr count
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- Tamil Nadu is now working on a standardised protocol to count the endangered population of southern India’s only mountain ungulate.
- The Tamil Nadu Forest Department will also propose to its Kerala counterpart to conduct a synchronised census.
- The animal is only found in select habitats in the two States.
- For the first time, drones may be incorporated in the census.
- The Nilgiri Tahr prefers montane grasslands, with steep and rocky terrains at an altitude between 300 and 2,600 metres above sea level.
- There are believed to be a little over 3,100 of the animals living in highly fragmented habitats in the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
- Their habitation ranging is between the Nilgiris in the north and the Kanniyakumari hills in the south.
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