Common Name: Falme- striped jungle squirrel
Scientific name: Funambulus layardi
Animal Family: Sciuridae
Description: Its head and body length is 12-17 cm, with a14 cm tail. In colour, it is balckish brown with three stripes on its dorsum; the central stripes is broadest and longest with an orange hue in signatus yellow in
Habitat: A diurnal forests dweller, this species is somstimes found close to human dwellings or tea plantations at the edges of forests .
Foods: The feeds on tender leaves, fruits, nuts and lichens.
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