Qualla: Mishmi Hills https://qualla.com/mishmi-hills en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/1/mishmi-hills-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mishmi Hills https://qualla.com/mishmi-hills Mishmi Hills: Introduction https://qualla.com/mishmi-hills/ Photo credit Mike Prince from Bangalore, India, CC BY 2.0. Somewhere in the Mishmi Hills, a flying squirrel the size of a house cat launches itself between trees that no botanist has yet catalogued, in a mountain range that cartographers have never properly mapped. This is not the nineteenth century. The Mishmi Hills giant flying squirrel was described by science only in 2009, one of several species discovered in a place where 90 percent humidity, near-vertical terrain, and the densest rainfall in the Himalayas conspire to keep secrets.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/1/mishmi-hills-wp/wjh1-mishmi-hills-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mishmi Hills: The Hinge of the Himalayas https://qualla.com/mishmi-hills/ Photo credit Kannan AS, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Mishmi Hills occupy the spot where the Himalayan arc takes a sharp turn and collides with the Indo-Burma ranges, a geological hinge between two of Earth's great mountain systems. Located at the northeastern tip of India in Arunachal Pradesh, with their Chinese flank administe...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/1/mishmi-hills-wp/wjh1-mishmi-hills-the-hinge-of-the-himalayas.mp3 0:06 2 full Mishmi Hills: Seven Cats and a Takin https://qualla.com/mishmi-hills/ Photo credit A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF, CC BY-SA 4.0. The species list reads like a fever dream of evolutionary experimentation. Eight species of wild cat prowl the Mishmi Hills: tiger, common leopard, clouded leopard, snow leopard, golden cat, jungle cat, marbled cat, and leopard cat. The endangered red panda inhabits the northern ...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/1/mishmi-hills-wp/wjh1-mishmi-hills-seven-cats-and-a-takin.mp3 0:06 3 full Mishmi Hills: Rain Without Mercy https://qualla.com/mishmi-hills/ Photo credit Internet Archive Book Images, CC BY-SA 2.0. Pre-monsoon showers begin in March and hardly let up. Humidity hovers near 90 percent, and the rainfall is among the heaviest anywhere in the Himalayan system. This deluge feeds sub-tropical evergreen forests at lower elevations, which give way to temperate conifers, sub-alpine s...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/h/1/mishmi-hills-wp/wjh1-mishmi-hills-rain-without-mercy.mp3 0:06 4 full Mishmi Hills: Frontier Lines and Shifting Borders https://qualla.com/mishmi-hills/ Photo credit A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF, CC BY-SA 4.0. Administratively, the Mishmi Hills have been carved and recarved by changing political realities. On the Indian side, they were declared a district in 1948 after splitting from the Sadiya Frontier Tract. By 1954, when the North-East Frontier Agency was formed, the area became Loh...

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