Common Name: Sri lanka mountain rat
Scientific Name: Rattus montanus
Animal Family: Muridae
Description: Grayish brown with a reddish tinge dorsally, darkest along back. Underparts gray grading into whitish. Chin and upper throat white. Tail balckish brown with fine dark hairs.
Habitat: Knuckles, Horton plains, Nuwara Eliya, and Ohiya in the central highlands of central and Uva provinces of Sri lanka.
Foods: Fruits, vegetables, cooked egg, grains and seeds.
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.
Common Name: Asiatic elephant
Scientific Name: Elephas maximus
Animal Family: Elephantidae
Population: Asian elephants once roamed across most of asia, now they're restricted to just 15% of there original range, in a number of fragmented and isolated population around south and south east Asia. Today, there are fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants left in the wild.
Description: Slightly smaller than their Afircan cousins,adult Asian elephants weigh on average between 6000 and 12000 pounds .They typically stand. 6 to 12 feet tall at the shoulders. Males are usually larger than females .
Habitat: Asian elephanta are found in isolated pockets of India and Southeast Asia, including Sumatra and Borneo.
Foods: Cultivated crops such as bananas, rice and sugarcane are favourite foods.
