About Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary:
- Location: It is located in Tamil Nadu.
- This wildlife sanctuary serves as a buffer zone for the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala, as it is situated on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
- It is home to a diverse variety of flora and fauna shrubs and evergreen forests to mammals.
- Vegetation: It mainly consists of scrub forest (at the foothills) to dense evergreen forest and shola grasslands (at the top).
- Flora: Banyan Tree, Syzygium zeylanicum, Nothopegia vajravelui, Memecylon flavescens, Symplocos oligandra, Symplocos wynadense, Meiogyne ramarowii,
- Fauna: The sanctuary is home to elephants, tigers, leopards, Nilgiri tahr, gaurs, spotted deer, barking deer, sambar deer, wild boar, porcupine, Nilgiri langur, lion-tailed macaque.
- The wood snake is endemic to the Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary.
