By sitting quietly in this death trap, many of these animals were (and still are) killed.
With tourism exploding manifold in Valparai resulting in terrible increase in the traffic, this troop's future is precarious as their home is hardly 1 sq.km (an isolated pocket of evergreen forest).

Valparai is fast becoming another Madikeri, Kodaikanal, Ooty and the likes with the influx of unimaginable number of non-serious tourists.

I shudder to even think as to how long the LTMs and Tahrs will remain in their vanishing home..