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How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

They were targeting small terrestrial mammals moving through the landscape.

How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

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They were targeting small terrestrial mammals moving through the landscape.

COLOMBO — As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began laying...

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They were targeting small terrestrial mammals moving through the landscape. COLOMBO — As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began laying traps along the uneasy boundary between farmland and forest.

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  • COLOMBO — As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began laying...

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