Royal Bengal Tiger

The Royal Bengal Tiger is the national animal of India. The Bengal tiger is the second largest
subspecies after the Siberian tiger, recent studies have shown that Bengal Tigers are, on
average, larger than the Siberian Tigers. Today India has the largest number of Tigers in the
world, Kanha National Park is famous for its majestic Royal Bengal Tigers.

Great Indian Elephant

Elephants are loved, revered, groomed and given a prestigious place in the Indian culture.
The largest population of Asiatic Elephant are found in India. India has the largest population
of elephants but due to human encroachment, mining, construction of dam number of
elephants are falling.
Indian Rhinoceros
Indian Rhinoceros or the Great One-horned Rhinoceros is a large mammal primarily found in
north-eastern India and Nepal. It is confined to the tall grasslands and forests in the foothills
of the Himalayas. Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary shelters the highest density of Indian rhinos in
the world.

Great Indian Lion

The great Indian Lion is one of the largest of Indian cats, today survive only in the Gir Forest
of Gujarat, India. The habitat of the Asiatic lion is very small they survives today only in the
Gir National park of Gujarat and only about 411 lions are left in the wild forest of Junagarh.

Indian Leopard

Indian leopards are distributed all over in India. They inhabit tropical rain forests and dry
deciduous forest. The leopard is an agile and stealthy predator. The leopard is known for its
ability in climbing, and it has been observed resting on tree branches during the day.

Indian Black Bear

Indian black bears are also known as Asiatic black bear or Himalayan black bear or Moon
bear of India. Indian Black bear are listed as very dangerous animal in India, due to the so
many dangerous killing of humans. The main predator of Asian black bears are tigers,
although leopards and pack of wolf.

Indian Wild Buffalo

The wild water buffalo is the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo, and the second largest
wild bovid, smaller only than the Gaur. Wild water buffalo are endangered and live only in a
small number of protected areas stretching across Nepal and Bhutan.Indian wild buffalo are
found in Dibru Saikhowa National Park, Assam.

Indian Wild Ass

Indian Wild Ass also called khur are only found in the Little Rann of Kutch in the Gujarat
state of India. The Indian Wild Ass Sanctuarys Saline desert, grassland in arid zone and
shrubland are its preferred homeland. The Indian wild ass disappeared from its former haunts
in parts of western India and falls in endangered category of wild animals.

Indian Black Buck

The black buck is an antelope species native to the Indian subcontinent that has been
classified as near threatened. Indian black buck is also known Kala Hiran, today the
population of black bucks has become limited to parts of Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and
Gujarat, along with a few areas in the central India.

Blue Bull-Nilgai

The nilgai or blue bull is the biggest Asian antelope. Nilgai is a diurnal creature, found
inhabiting Indian grasslands their range covers natioal park, plains and low hills with shrubs
of India.
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

Pangolin or Scaly Anteater

Habitat: Variety of habitats - forests, hills,
cultivated land, rocky crevices. Found in much
of Eastern and Northern India and in Tamil
Nadu and Kerala also.
National Parks: Found in many National
Parks
Status in the Wild: Near Threatened

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.
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

Crocodile: Crocodiles are native of rivers and lakes and well known for their attacks
on human, This species of reptiles are
considered dangerous to adult humans.
Attacks of mugger crocodiles are reported
from tribal region of Indian state Kerala
in January 2001 and one from Andaman
Islands. . In the recent attack of crocodiles in
India is British man was attacked and killed
by a crocodile in one of the holy river of south
India Cauvery River. The river is said to be
infested with large number of mugger
crocodiles.