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Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage(Sinhala: පින්නවල අලි අනාථාගාරය), is a captive breedingand conservation institute for wild Asian elephantslocated at Pinnawalavillage, 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of Kegalletown in Sabaragamuwa Provinceof Sri Lanka. Pinnawala has the largest herd of captive elephants in the world.
Sri Lankan elephants are the largest subspecies reaching a shoulder height of between 2 and 3.5 m (6.6 and 11.5 ft), weigh between 2,000 and 5,500 kg (4,400 and 12,100 lb), and have 19 pairs of ribs. Their skin colour is darker than of indicus and of sumatranus with larger and more distinct patches of depigmentation on ears, face, trunk and ...
Sri Lanka is a small island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeast coast of India. The island is characterized by a tropical monsoon climate that is divided into the northeast monsoon (December to March) and southwest monsoon (June to October). [1] The terrain is mostly low, flat to rolling fertile plains.
Toque macaque. The toque macaque ( / tɒk məˈkæk /; Macaca sinica) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the rilewa or rilawa ( Sinhala: රිළවා), (hence the English word "rillow"). Its name refers to the whorl of hair at the crown of the head, reminiscent of a brimless toque cap.
Sciurus zeyllanicus Day, 1693. The grizzled giant squirrel ( Ratufa macroura) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in the highlands of the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka, and in patches of riparian forest along the Kaveri River and in the hill forests of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southern India. [ 4]
Sri Lanka, [ a ] historically known as Ceylon, [ b ] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the ...
Politician. Hirunika Eranjali Premachandra Yattowita ( Sinhala: හිරුණිකා ප්රේමචන්ද්ර; born 14 October 1987) [ 2] better known as Hirunika Premachandra is a member of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya. [ 3][ 4] She is a former Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament from the United National Party and a former ...
The Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) is a leopard subspecies native to Sri Lanka. It was first described in 1956 by Sri Lankan zoologist Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala. [2] Since 2020, the Sri Lankan leopard has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, as the population is estimated at less than 800 mature individuals, and ...