Zoological Survey of India scientists sight mountain skink on Mangalore University campus
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Zoological Survey of India scientists sight mountain skink on Mangalore University campus

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A team of scientists from the Zoological Survey of India, which has been conducting a faunal diversity survey of Mangalagangotri campus of Mangalore University for last three days, sighted an Eutropis clivicola on the campus on Friday. “Sighting the mountain skink on the Mangalagangotri campus may be a new record for Karnataka,” Vishwanath D. Hegde, Scientist-E and Officer-in-Charge, and Muhamed Jafer Palot, Scientist-C, ZSI, told The Hindu. He said that Pallid Harrier and Chestnut Shouldered Petronia were new bird species sighted on the university campus during the survey. “We also saw Pantala flavescens, the globe skimmer dragonfly, known for inter-continental migration,” Mr. Hegde said.

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Rare initiative: Zoological Survey of India conducts faunal diversity survey on a university campus
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Rare initiative: Zoological Survey of India conducts faunal diversity survey on a university campus

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A team of the Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode, Kerala, which began the six-day faunal diversity survey of Mangalagangotri campus of Mangalore University three days ago is conducting such a survey on a university campus for the first time, according to a senior scientist of the ZSI. Speaking to The Hindu during the survey on Friday, …

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