Endemic animals live naturally in Sri Lanka and nowhere else on Earth. The island’s long isolation and its wet south-west and central hills have produced a remarkable number of them \u2014 especially frogs, lizards, freshwater fish, birds and primates. Some, like the leopard and sloth bear, are endemic subspecies: the same species lives elsewhere, but the Sri Lankan form is unique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Endemic animals live naturally in Sri Lanka and nowhere else on Earth. The island’s long isolation and its wet south-west and central hills have produced a remarkable number of them \u2014 especially frogs, lizards, freshwater fish, birds and primates. Some, like the leopard and sloth bear, are endemic subspecies: the same species lives elsewhere, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/endemics.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}