Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Animals in India

Deer
Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the fallow deer and the chital, and the Capreolinae, including the elk, reindeer , the Western roe deer, and the Eurasian elk. Female reindeer, and male deer of all species, grow and shed new antlers each year. In this they differ from permanently horned antelope, which are in the same order.


The Lion
The Lion is one of the big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. The normally used term African lion collectively denotes the several subspecies in Africa. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat, barring hybrids like the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in India. In historic times, their range was in most of Africa, including North Africa, and across Eurasia from Greece and southeastern Europe to India

Indian Rhinoceros
The Indian rhinoceros is also called the greater one-horned rhinoceros and great Indian rhinoceros, is a rhinoceros native to the Indian subcontinent. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, as populations are fragmented and restricted to less than 20,000 km . In addition, the extent and quality of the rhino's most important habitat, alluvial grassland and riverine forest, is considered to be in decline due to human and livestock encroachment.

The Macaques
The Macaques constitute a genus of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The 23 species of macaques are widespread over Earth. Macaques are principally frugivorous, although their diet also includes seeds, leaves, flowers, and tree bark, and some, such as the crab-eating macaque, persist on a diet of invertebrates and occasionally small vertebrates. All macaque social groups are arranged around dominant, matriarchal females.
The Tiger
The Tiger is the biggest cat species, most recognizable for their stepwise of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar, and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. They are territorial and generally solitary but social animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that they are indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans.

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