With time, Lakhi’s age caught up with her, and she showed signs of slowing down, old injuries got inflamed and she seemed to prefer resting against the mud beds in her enclosure
With time, Lakhi’s age caught up with her, and she showed signs of slowing down, old injuries got inflamed and she seemed to prefer resting against the mud beds in her enclosure. Late Saturday evening on the 3rd of March, she seemed more weary than usual, and even as her knees buckled under her, Asha and Coco rushed to her side to support her. Asha appeared calm and strong, as if she knew in her own way that this was it – Coco panicked initially, rushing about and running circles around her fallen friend. The team rushed in, the crane was called in to lift her back to her feet and support her – the elephants moved aside and watched, Asha touching them gently as they huddled together. They stood back as the team tried to get her back to her feet, even the younger elephants seemed uncharacteristically calm. Maybe they knew, maybe they realised it was time to let go and had their chance to say their goodbyes, and wanted to let her pass in peace. Lakhi resisted being lifted, as if she too knew her time had come. She let out her final breath and slumped down against the mud bed, eyes shut looking like she was completely at peace. As the team moved away, heartbroken, Asha rumbled loudly from where she was standing, but none of the elephants moved – Coco let out a small wail, and from every enclosure elephants responded softly with rumbles, trumpets and huffs all the way from the bulls to the closerby females like Phoolkali like an orchestra of calm, reassuring solidarity for their fallen friend.
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You can find the Hoolock gibbon in the lush forest canopies of Northeastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and China. Moreover, they are the only apes native to India, dancing amid the trees with agility.
The first rare butterfly we are starting with is the kaiser-i-hind butterfly, also known as the Emperor of India. It is a rare species of swallowtail butterfly native to the Eastern Himalayas- Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, West Bengal, and Sikkim.
Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing is next on our list of rare butterfly species. Albert S. Meek discovered this species in Papua New Guinea in 1906. He was a naturalist to Walter Rothschild, who named the butterfly after the wife of Edward VII, Queen Alexandra of Denmark.
Zebra Longwing , the state butterfly of Florida, is a neotropical butterfly native to Mexico, Central America, Florida, and some parts of Texas. It has long black wings with bold and narrow yellow stripe and a wingspan of 72 to 100 mm.
Next on our list of rare butterflies is Lange’s metalmark butterfly. Its flight period starts in early August and goes up until mid or late September. Lange’s metalmark is a small butterfly with a wing length of about 25 mm. Its wing colors are orange and brown, with white spots, while its hindwings are gray-brown.
Bhutan Glory is an endangered butterfly native to the eastern Himalayas (north-eastern India and Bhutan) and the Hengduan Mountains (south-western China and Myanmar). There are four subspecies of Bhutan glory: Ludlow’s Bhutan Glory, Mansfield’s Bhutan Glory, and Chinese Bhutan Glory.
Next on our list of rare butterflies is the Luzon peacock swallowtail. This beautiful long-tailed butterfly is native to Luzon, northern Philippines, and has green-black, red, and purple colors.
Leona’s little blue butterfly is one of the rarest butterflies in the world. It is a small butterfly with a 0.75-inch wing width. Leona’s Little Blue is native to Klamath County, Oregon, United States, and is the only butterfly endemic to Oregon. You can only find it in a specific area in Oregon: six square miles of ash-pumice habitat southeast of Crater Lake.
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