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Can You Name 12 Animals from India?
Can you name 12 animals
unique to India?
Wildlife In India
(Interactive games for children, National Parks, wildlife
organizations)
Children's books with animal themes set in India
Animal themes in
Indian art
Children model clay animals
12 Animals from India
Indian Elephant or Asian Elephant, Asiatic Lion, Lion Tailed Macaque, Great Indian Rhinoceros, Leopard, Neelgai, Royal Bengal Tiger, Wild Ass, Pangolin or Scaly Anteater, Chinkara, Nilgiri Tahr, Indian Flying Fox
Indian
Elephant or the Asian Elephant
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, Karnataka, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, Periyar National Park, Kerala
Status in the Wild:
Endangered
Habitat:
Grasslands and plains
National Parks:
Found only at the Gir National Forest, Gujarat
Status in the Wild:
Endangered
More Facts At:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_Lion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Capital_of_Ashoka
Lion
Tailed Macaque
Habitat:
Lion-tailed macaques live in southwest India in pockets of evergreen
forests, called sholas, in the Western Ghats 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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-tailed_Macaque
Great Indian Rhinoceros
Habitat: Found only in
the tall grasslands and forests in the foothills
of the Himalayas.
National Parks: Kaziranga
National Park, Assam; Manas National Park, Assam
Status in the Wild: Endangered
More Facts At: Canadian Museum of Nature http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/indrhino.htm
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:
More Facts At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Leopard
Neelgai
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: Haryana Online http://www.haryana-online.com/Fauna/neelgai.htm
Royal 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:
Wild Ass
Habitat: Flat
grassland covered expanse known as bets (islands where
coarse grasses springs up during the monsoon).
National Parks: Little Rann Of Kutch,
Gujarat
Status in the Wild: Endangered
More Facts At: Indian Wildlife http://www.indian-wildlife.com/wildasssanctuary.htm
Pangolin or
Scaly Anteater
Habit
National Parks:
Status in the Wild:
More Facts At: http://www.ecoindia.com/animals/mammals/indian-pangolin.html
Chinkara
Habitat: Grasslands and dessert
National Parks: Kutch Dessert Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat, Gir National Forest, Gujarat
Status in the Wild: Least concern
More Facts At:
Nilgiri Tahr
Habitat: Hills of southern India at elevations of about 1,800m (6,00 ft.)
National Parks: Eravikulam National Park, Kerala
Status in the Wild: Endangered
More Facts At:
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 roads It 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 Jharkhand, Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh, Molem National Park in Goa, 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:
Last reviewed December 2010
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