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'''The Agumbe Rainforest Research Station''' (ARRS) is a field based conservation and research organisation situated inside the Agumbe Reserved Forest at [[Agumbe]] in the central [[Western Ghats]] of southern India. The Agumbe Reserved Forests receives an annual rainfall in excess of {{convert|7000|mm|abbr=on}} and is at an elevation of about {{convert|640|m|abbr=on}} above sea level.<ref name="Five wettest places in India you should know about">{{cite news|title=Five wettest places in India you should know about|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/five-wettest-places-in-india/1/445735.html|accessdate=17 July 2015|publisher=india today|date=19 June 2015}}</ref> It forms a part of the Malnad-Kodagu corridor, which also includes the [[Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary|Someshwara]], [[Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary|Mookambika]], [[Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary|Bhadra]], and [[Sharavati Wildlife Sanctuary|Sharavati]] Wildlife Sanctuaries, [[Kudremukh National Park]], and various other forest tracts and reserve forests around Kundapur, Shankaranarayana, Hosanagara, Sringeri, and Thirthahalli.<ref name="arrs_facts"><br />
{{Cite web|url=http://www.agumberainforest.com/fast_facts.html |title=Fast Facts |work=agumberainforest.com |publisher=Agumbe Rainforest Research Station |accessdate=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028015734/http://www.agumberainforest.com/fast_facts.html |archivedate=28 October 2011 }}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Kalinga mane.JPG|thumb|right|Kalinga Mane at ARRS. It was the first building at ARRS. Others were later added]]<br />
ARRS was founded in 2005, by leading Indian herpetologist [[Romulus Whitaker]]. Whitaker saw his very first [[king cobra]] (Ophiophagus hannah) here in 1971. He was also extremely taken by the reverence the people in the region showed for snakes, which was a major factor that drove him to establish a research station in Agumbe (Karnataka ).<ref name="arrs_about">{{Cite web|url=http://www.agumberainforest.com/about_us.html |title=About Us |work=agumberainforest.com |publisher=Agumbe Rainforest Research Station |accessdate=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207235406/http://www.agumberainforest.com/about_us.html |archivedate=7 February 2014 }}</ref> The land is a revenue land was legally procured, the construction and activities are eco friendly and pose no disturbance to the wildlife.<br />
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[[File:Agumbe Rain Forest Research Station.JPG|thumb|left|The cottages at ARRS for volunteers and researchers]]<br />
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==Activities==<br />
ARRS managed the world's first radio-telemetry project on the King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), which is also the first radio-telemetry study done on any snake in India.<ref name="RaoEtAl2013">{{cite journal | last1 = Rao | first1 = Chetan | last2 = Talukdar | first2 = Gautam | last3 = Gowri Shankar | first3 = P. | last4 = Choudhury | first4 = B. C. | last5 = Whitaker | first5 = Romulus | last6 = Goode | first6 = Matt |year= 2013 |title= Habitat use of King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in a heterogeneous landscape matrix in the tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India |journal=Hamadryad |publisher=Centre for Herpetology, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=69–79 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321699312 |accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Whitaker |first1=R. |last2=Goode |first2=M. |last3=Shankar |first3=P.G. | author-link = Romulus Whitaker | editor-last = Sivakumar | editor-first = K. | editor2-last = Habib | editor2-first = B. | year = 2010 | title = Application of radiotelemetry techniques in snake research: King Cobras (Ophiophagus hannah, Cantor, 1836) in Agumbe, Karnataka, India| work = Telemetry in Wildlife Science | series = ENVIS Bulletin, Wildlife in Protected Areas | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | pages = 151–159 }}</ref> Insight gained from this ecological study is being put into practice into king cobra management in the region. ARRS researchers have witnessed various unique behaviors among the species including a male king cobra killing a possibly pregnant female, a rare behavior even among mammals.<br />
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ARRS conducts and facilitates a wide variety of research projects, ranging from rainforest ecology, behavioral and population ecology, phenology, geoinformatics and socio economics. Apart from research, ARRS focuses on education and outreach in the local community, schools and colleges. A well-developed volunteer and research intern programme makes the research station an ideal location for those interested in field based research and conservation The research station encourages and provides facilities for graduate and PHD students to conduct projects.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Madras Crocodile Bank Trust]]<br />
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