<span style="color: #222222;">There is a prevalent wildlife story in the Oriental realm, that talks about the Venetian merchant, explorer and writer Marco Polo, who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. He heard clairvoyance in Gobi and he wrote, 'when travellers are on the move by night, and one of them chances to lag behind or to fall asleep or the like when he tries to gain his company again he will hear spirits talking. Even in the daytime one hears those spirits talking. And sometimes you shall hear the sound of a variety of musical instruments, and still more commonly the sound of drums.' However, Polo wasn’t hearing anything supernatural, but he wasn’t imagining it either. The sands of the Gobi desert do make some bizarre and hauntingly beautiful sounds.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"><br />” Similarly, forest dwellers living in the Seshachalam forest or Madhumalai or Nagarjunasagar Srisailam or Tiger Reserve(NSTR) in South India&nbsp;sometimes hear clairvoyance sounds like a human scream. This&nbsp;is also not a ghostly act. This, in fact, is a call of an endangered bird ‘Spot Bellied Eagle Owl’ (Bubo Nipalensis). A wildlife team recently stumbled upon a ‘Spot Bellied Eagle Owl’ (Bubo Nipalensis) for the first time in the Seshachalam forest, and for the third time in Andhra Pradesh. The bird’s habitat, found on large trees in thick forests, is spread across the Indian subcontinent. But it was sighted only twice in the State earlier, and both times it was at Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve(NSTR). The bird’s habitat, found on large trees in thick forests, is spread across the Indian subcontinent.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"><br />” The bold predatory bird, measuring 20-25 inches in length and weighing between 1.5 kg and 2 kg feeds on small rodents and lizards.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;"><br />”The bird makes a strange scream similar to humans and it is hence called the ‘Ghost of the Forest’ in India and ‘Devil Bird’ in Sri Lanka.</span><br />