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- noun hills in southern India
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The rare and endemic Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) is currently limited to a narrow, 400-kilometer (km) stretch of shola-grassland mosaic, from the Nilgiri Hills to the Ashambu Hills.
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Other members of the genus are the Himalayan tahr (H. jemlahicus) and the Nilgiri tahr (H. hylocrus) from the Nilgiri Hills and western ghats of southern India.
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The southern section of the ecoregion overlaps with a high-priority TCU and also borders on the Nilgiri Hills, which harbor one of Asia's most important elephant populations.
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For instance, the elephant population that ranges from the Nilgiri Hills to the Eastern Ghats, estimated at more than 6,000 animals, is considered to be the largest single elephant population in India.
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India's largest elephant population, which wanders the Nilgiri Hills, also wanders into the extreme southern areas of the ecoregion.
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Guatemala grass (T. laxum) is used to form bench terraces in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, India.
Chapter 11 1993
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There is also an unidentified casuarina species growing sparsely as shade trees in tea gardens in the Nilgiri Hills in Madras State.
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Reclus records concerning the Todas of the Nilgiri Hills, in India:
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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BADAGAS (literally "a Telugu man"), a tribe inhabiting the Nilgiri Hills, in India, by some authorities declared not to be an aboriginal or jungle race.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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As good an instance of this phase of culture as may be had is afforded by the tribes of the Andamans, or by the Todas of the Nilgiri Hills.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899
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