A live rusty-spotted cat, one of the world's smallest wild cats, was recorded in Shergarh Sanctuary in Baran district, Rajasthan. The nocturnal, solitary species is listed as Near Threatened by IUCN. Other biodiversity records included the first Indian sighting of the jumping spider Colyttus bilineatus in Assam and a new orchid, Diplozentrum papillosum, from Idukki, Kerala, in a genus endemic to the southern Western Ghats.