1.Indian Elephant or 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
2. Asiatic Lion
Habitat: Grasslands and plains A member of the feline species widely given the epithet, ‘the king of beasts,’ the Asiatic lion, also known as the Asian, Indian and Persian lion, is one of the five big cats found in India, besides the Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, snow leopard and clouded leopard. It is also the only big cat in South Asia, mostly confined to a single area around the Gir National Park in Gujarat. Its physical magnificence, though lesser in appeal than the Bengal tiger and African lion, is still a sight to behold.
National Parks: Found only at the Gir National Forest, Gujarat
Status in the Wild: Endangered
3.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.
Status in the Wild: Endangered.
4.Great Indian Rhinoceros
Habitat: Indian Rhinoceros The Indian Rhinoceros(Rhinoceros unicornis), is also known as the ‘Greater One-horned Rhinoceros’. The Indian rhino once inhabited areas from Pakistan to Burma and may have even roamed in China. However, because of human influence, their range has shrunk and now they only exist in small populations in northeastern India and Nepal.The Indian rhino is confined to the tall grasslands and forests in the foothills of the Himalayas. The Indian Rhino’s habitat is tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, shrublands, swamps and forests – similar to that of the White Rhino.
National Parks: Kaziranga National Park, Assam; Manas National Park, Assam
5. Leopard
Habitat: The leopard lives in all types of habitats from open country to thick forest.The Indian Leopard has larger rosettes than the other subspecies, with a paler coat in desert habitats, greyer in colder climes and more ochre in rainforest habitats. Like other leopard subspecies, the pattern of rosettes is unique to each individual and can be used to tell them apart. They are sexually dimorphic, with males larger and heavier than females.Indian leopards are good climbers and rely on trees for cover, so are found in various forested habitats, including rainforest, dry deciduous forest, temperate forest and northern coniferous forest.
National Parks: Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan; Sariska National Park, Rajasthan
Status in the Wild: Near Threatened
6.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. Sometimes referred to as the "blue bull" (or horse), it is the largest of all Asian antelopes and is one of the most commonly seen wild animals in all of India. Nilgai stands 3 feet 7 inches to almost 5 feet tall at the shoulder (1.1 to 1.5 meters) and has a length of 5 foot 7 inches to almost 7 feet (1.7 to 2.1 meters). They weigh between 220 and 680 pounds (100 to 308 kilograms); this makes them quite the imposing creatures. Their somewhat peculiar shape makes them very interesting to the eye. The nilgai is very robust animals with bodies similar to horses, but have much smaller heads and small horns (only on the males), leading many to compare them to a cross between a horse and a goat. Females are a lighter brown colour and slightly less robustly built. Both males and females have a short bristly mane.
National Parks: Sultanpur National Park, Haryana
Status in the Wild: Secure.
7.Royal Bengal Tiger
Habitat: The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India with smaller populations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar. It is the most numerous of all tiger subspecies with more than 2,500 left in the wild. The creation of India’s tiger reserves in the 1970s helped to stabilize numbers, but poaching to meet a growing demand from Asia in recent years has once again put the Bengal tiger at risk. The mangroves of the Sundarbans—shared between Bangladesh and India—are the only mangrove forests where tigers are found. The Sundarbans are increasingly threatened by sea level rise as a result of climate change.
National Parks: Kanha National Park, MP; Bandavgarh National Park, MP
Status in the Wild: Endangered
8.Wild Ass
Habitat: Indian Wild Ass called with scientific name as Equus hemionus khur is a rare species of Indian Wildlife. Its Kingdom is animalia and phylum being Chordata, belogns to Class mammalia with the order perissodactyla. In general it is classified with the family name as Equidea.
Commonly it is also called with several other names as Indian Wild Ass. Khur, Ghorkar or Ghorkad.
Flat grassland covered expanse known as bets (islands where coarse grasses springs up during the monsoon).
Commonly it is also called with several other names as Indian Wild Ass. Khur, Ghorkar or Ghorkad.
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
9.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
10.Chinkara
Habitat: Grasslands and dessert
National Parks: Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat, Gir National Forest, Gujarat
Status in the Wild: Least Concern
11.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
12.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.
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