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Essential Questions about animals and habitats ...... 1 12 Animals from India ...... 2 Asiatic Lion, , or For More Information ...... 10 Indian , endangered, Great Indian Rhinoceros, habitat, Indian or the , Indian Flying Fox, Indian Leopard, Indian Pangolin or Scaly NCSS THEMES Anteater, Lion Tailed Macaque, national park, , Nilgiri , Wild

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12 Animals from India Keywords: Northern Lion, Bengal Tiger, Chinkara or Indian Gazelle, Indian Rhinoceros, Indian elephant or the Asian elephant, Indian Flying Fox, Indian Leopard, Indian Pangolin or Scaly Anteater, Lion Tailed Macaque, Nilgiri Tahr, Wild Ass, Indian Flying Fox

INDIAN ELEPHANT OR THE ASIAN ELEPHANT Bengal Tiger Habitat: Tropical forest habitats from moist, evergreen lowland forest to dry semi- deciduous teak forests to cooler mountain forests up to 10,000 feet. They also frequent adjacent grasslands and farm areas.

National Parks: Bennarghatta National Park, ; , ; ,

Status in the Wild: Endangered

More Facts At: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/asian-elephant

Source: Baby Indian elephant at Kabini National Park, Karnataka, India. Contributed by a reader.

INDIAN RHINOCEROS

Habitat: Found only in the tall grasslands and forests in the foothills of the Himalayas.

National Parks: Kaziranga National Park, Assam; , Assam

Status in the Wild: Endangered

More Facts At: http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/indrhino.htm

Source of the photograph: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42372170

BENGAL TIGER

Habitat: Habitats include dense thickets, long grass, or tamarisk shrubs along river banks.

National Parks: Kanha National Park, MP; Bandavgarh National Park, MP

Status in the Wild: Endangered

More Facts At: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_tiger

Source of the photograph: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51406320 Can you name 12 animals from India?

NORTHERN LION

Habitat: Grasslands and plains

National Parks: Gir National Forest, Gujarat

Status in the Wild: Endangered

More Facts At: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/a/asiatic-lion/

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1576004 The Asiatic lion's habitat is dry scrub land and open deciduous forest. These lions were once found across northern Africa, south west and northern Greece. Now there are only around 523 (census 2015) left in the wild and all of them are in or around the Gir Forest National Park, Gujarat, India

Indian Leopard INDIAN LEOPARD

Habitat: The leopard lives in all types of habitats from open country to thick forest.

National Parks: Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan; Sariska National Park, Rajasthan

Status in the Wild: Least concern

More Facts At: https://www.worldlandtrust.org/species/mammals/indian-leopard/

Source of the photograph: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45581523

NILGAI

Habitat: They live on a variety of land types from hillsides to level ground with scattered grass steppes, trees, and cultivated areas, but not in thick forests.

National Parks: Sultanpur National Park, Haryana

Status in the Wild: Secure

More Facts At: https://kids.kiddle.co/Nilgai

Source of the photograph: https://kids.kiddle.co/Nilgai

INDIAN PANGOLIN OR SCALY ANTEATER

Habitat: Variety of habitats - forests, hills, cultivated land, rocky crevices.Found in much of Eastern and Northern India and in and Kerala

National Parks: Found in many National Parks

Status in the Wild: Near Threatened

More Facts At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin

LION TAILED MACAQUE

Habitat: Lion-tailed macaques live in southwest India in pockets of evergreen forests, called , in the range. They live at elevations between 2,000 and 3,500 feet. Lion-tailed macaques are unique to India. In the early 1970s, they still ranged through the southern third of the country. Today, they only live in mountain forests scattered across three Indian states: Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.

National Parks: Kalakkadu Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu, Mundanthuri Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu

Status in the Wild: Endangered

More Facts At: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-tailed_macaque

Source of the photograph: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23885326

WILD ASS

Habitat: Flat grassland covered expanse known as bets (islands where coarse grasses springs up during the ).

National Parks: Little Rann Of Kutch, Gujarat

Status in the Wild: Endangered

More Facts At: From IUC (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/7963/3144616

Source of the photograph: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47380957

INDIAN FLYING FOX

Habitat: This species roosts in large colonies of hundreds to thousands of individuals on large trees in rural and urban areas, close to agricultural fields, ponds and by the side of roadsIt feeds on a wide variety of fruits and flowers, both wild and cultivated. A single young is born between April to early June. It travels long distances, up to 150 km to and from its roost, a night in search of fleshy berries.

National Parks: Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu, Palamau Tiger Reserve and Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary in , Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh, Molem National Park in , Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, Chilka (Nalaban) Wildlife Sanctuary in Orissa and Indravati National Park in Chattisgarh.

Status in the Wild: Least concern

More Facts At: From IUC (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18725/8511108

Source of the photograph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_flying_fox

NILGIRI TAHR

Habitat: Hills of southern India at elevations of about 1,800m (6,00 ft.)

National Parks: , Kerala

Status in the Wild: Endangered

More Facts At: World Wildlife Fund – India

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgiri_tahr

CHINKARA OR INDIAN GAZELLE

Habitat: Grasslands and dessert

National Parks: Kutch Dessert Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat, Gir National Forest, Gujarat

Status in the Wild: Least concern

More Facts At: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinkara

Source of the photograph: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/51565240Chinkara Or

For More Information

Bombay Natural History Society www.bnhs.org

International Union for Conservation of Nature - India https://www.iucn.org/asia/countries/india

PETA India www.petaindia.com

Sanctuary Asia - India's leading wildlife, conservation and environment magazine http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/index.php

Wildlife Trust Of India www.wildlifetrustofindia.org

Endemic mammals of India https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/endemic-mammals-of- india