10. Sloth Bear

 

Common Name:  Bear sloth 

Scientific Name:  Melursus ursinus inornatus

Animal Family:  Ursidae

Description:  Sri lanka sloth bears have much shorter body hair than the common sloth bear and a much less shaggy appearance.

Habitat:  The sloth bear sticks to heavily foreststed areas, with a lot of rock outcrops and caves in dry zone of Sri lanka.

Foods:  sloth bears feats on a variety of fruits such as 'palu', 'weera', etc .They are also known to climb up trees to get at bee hives. They will also eat leafy plants, nuts, vegetables and rodents.

09. Nillu Rat

 

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.

08.Layard's Plam Squirrel

 

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.

07.Indian Flying Fox

Common Name:  Greater India fruits bat

Scientific Name:  Pteropus giganteus

Animal Family:  Pteropodidea

Description:  Nomadic mammals that travel across large areas of Australia, feeding on native blossoms and fruits, spreading seeds and pollinating native plants.

Habitat:  Across the Indian Subcontinent , including in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Tibet , the Maldives, 

Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Foods:  Indian Flying foxes maintain a frugivorous diet, supplementing it with insects as well as flowers, containing juice and nectar.