Cylinder Snake
Article no-02 Modith D. Wickramasinghe The Ceylonese Cylinder Snake, known scientifically as Cylindrophis maculatus or in Sinhalese as ‘Depath Naya’. It owns a special place in Sri Lankan herpetology as not only been an...
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Chestnut-backed owlet
Article no-01 J. A. Ganguli Vimansa Sewmi Chestnut-backed owlet Have you heard about the bird called Pitathabala Vana — Bassa in Sinhala speaking? Here is an attractive bird that scientifically named as Glaucidium castanotum...
ඒකදේශිය සත්ත්වයෝ
Artical no-20 Piyumie Nishadi Sulakshana Athukoralage ශ්‍රි ලංකාව කුඩා භූමි ප්‍රමාණයකට සිමා වුවද , ජෛව විවිධත්වය ඉහල මට්ටමක පවති. ඒකදේශිය සතුන් යනු, කිසියම් භුමි ප්‍රදේශයකට සිමාවු සතුන්ය.මෙය විශේෂ, උපවිශේෂ යන වර්ගිකරණ මට්ටම් යටතේ සාකච්ඡාවට...
Endemic Animals
Article no-19 K.S.Maleesha Though the mechanism behind the evolution of life on earth not yet fully discovered by the scientists, zoology has studied animals in numerous ways such as morphological similarities, distribution, molecular biological...
Endemic Animals
Artical no-17 A.A.E.B. Nirmani There’s beauty in diversity. Biodiversity is the most beautiful of them all. Sri Lanka is one of the 36 biodiversity hotspots in the world. Sri Lanka might be a tiny...
Endemic painters of Sri Lankan Beauty
Article no-16 D.R.H. Sirimanna The pearl of the Indian Ocean – Sri Lanka is known for its natural beauty. The air, water, soil and climate itself enhances the bio diversity of this island. Ranging...
Endemic Animals
Article no-15 Ranthilini C Banduwardena An endemic species is confined to a particular country or area and not found growing naturally anywhere else in the world. Endemic animals in Sri Lanka include birds,mammals,butterflies,reptiles,amphibians etc.Sri...
ඒකදෙශින්ට සරණ ස්වදේශිකයින් මිස අන් කවරකුද?
Article no-14 Nayanaththara sapugoda සොබාදම් දිනිතිය යදින කලක මිනිසාට සිතෙනු ඇත දියුණුව යනු පරිසරයෙන් ඈත්වීම නොව පරිසරය රැකගෙන යා යුතු ගමනක් බව.කෙසේ නමුත් දූපත් වාසීන් වශයෙන් ඉහල ජෛව විවිධත්වක් පූරැවේ පිනට ලාංකිකයන්ට පහල වී...
Endemic Animals
Artical no-12 W.R.M. Perera Sri Lanka, more fondly known as The Pearl of the Indian Ocean, is home to a variety of plants and animal species, owing to its wide range of geographical features...
Endemic species
Artical no-04 Breverly Fernandez The IUCN defines an endemic species as one which is native to, and restricted to a particular geographical region. Macarthur and Wilson’s theory on ‘Island Biogeography’ is a fine portrayal...