INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nilgiris Reserve is India’s first biosphere reserves having very rich flora and fauna, The reserve host largest population of endangered lion tailed macaque, nilgiri tahr and Vulnerable Nilgiri langur .

Detailed explanation-2: -The lion-tailed macaques are only native to India. There, they live in the Western Ghats hills and mountains of southwestern India. They are primarily endemic to small and severely fragmented rainforests of the Western Ghats in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the wild, lion-tailed macaques are only native to India. They live in the Western Ghats hills and mountains of southwestern India, where they live in tropical rainforests and on elevated mountainsides.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Lion-tailed Macaque can be observed on tree canopies of the Western Ghats rainforests, and nowhere else in the world. Historically, its population extended contiguously over the entire stretch of the Western Ghats, from Kerala in the south, to Maharashtra in the north.

Detailed explanation-5: -Its outstanding characteristic is the silver-white mane which surrounds the head from the cheeks down to its chin, which gives this monkey its German name Bartaffe – “beard ape".