WILDLIFE OF INDIA
Wildlife of India takes you on an exciting journey through the rich and varies wildlife thriving in diverse ecological zones of the country. The natural world of India presents an awesome array of flora, fauna and animals reverberating with sounds of the forest or jungle – the roar of a lion, the alarm call of a sambar deer, the trumpeting of an elephant, the whistle of a wild dog and the distinctive calls of plethora of birds.
Wildlife has played an important role in the life of a common man in India, since times immemorial. Indian civilization has always accorded due respect to the eternal blessings of Mother Nature. Most animals were revered in Indian mythology as the vahana or vehicle of various gods and goddesses or as an incarnation of the deity itself. People of the subcontinent have always worshipped elements of nature, plants and animals as the revered symbols of their religions. Trees like peepal, bargadh and banana and plants like tulsi or basil are considered to be sacred and are worshipped even today.
People of India identified some animals with their mythological characters and revered them. Hindu and Buddhist mythology gave the theories of birth and rebirth. These suggested that man was born as human being only after he had done a good deed as an animal in his earlier life.
The tiger is the most visible mammal of the Indian wildlife. It is protected in many sanctuaries and national parks making it the most protected animal in the jungles of India.
India has a wide range of wildlife as Corbett, Ranthambore, Bandhavgarh, Kanha, Sariska, Bharatpur, Ranikhet, Kumarakom and many more..
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