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India’s dancing frogs, walking fish and sneezing monkeys
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Thirsty India leopard gets head stuck in pot
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#Wildlife #Rajasthan A male leopard spent five hours with its head stuck in a metal pot. Local people told reporters that the animal appeared to have been foraging for water, and then got its head stuck inside the vessel. The confused and frightened animal wandered around the village as residents took pictures and videos. Wildlife officials eventually tranquilised the leopard and used a saw to remove the pot from its head. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34409635
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For Rescued Baby Clouded Leopard, It’s Nursery Then Jungle Camp
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Parrot 'arrested for swearing at 85-year-old woman' in India
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#Wildlife A parrot has been detained by police in India after an elderly woman filed a complaint against it for making abusive comments. The parrot, named as Hariyal, was reportedly trained for two years by its owner, Suresh Sakharkar, to abuse his stepmother, Janabai. http://www.telegraph.co.u...ar-old-woman-in-India.html
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Is India Selling Out Its Tigers?
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India: Travel & Tourism
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#Wildlife Monsoon Floods Kill 10 Endangered Lions - at least 10 of the country's 523 lions killed — the last members of the subspecies left anywhere in the wild — as well as prey animals, including more than 80 spotted deer and 1,670 Asian antelope called blue bulls, according to a report submitted over the weekend to the federal environment ministry in New Delhi. http://abcnews.go.com/Tec...-endangered-lions-32391303
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Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, located in West Himalaya, in the state of Uttarakhand
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#Wildlife Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, located in West Himalaya, in the state of Uttarakhand and is known for its meadows of endemic alpine #flowers and the variety of flora. This richly diverse area is also home to rare and endangered animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow leopard, musk deer, brown bear, red fox, and blue sheep. Birds found in the park include Himalayan Monal Pheasant and other high altitude birds.
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Macaque monkeys appear to have become an unlikely roadblock in the development of internet services
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India: Travel & Tourism
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#wildlife India's tiger population sees 30% increase. India says it now has almost a third more tigers than it did four years ago.
Presenting the findings of the latest tiger census, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the tiger population had risen from 1,706 in 2011 to 2,226 in 2014. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30896028
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India: Current Affairs
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India: Miscellaneous
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India: People & Places
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#wildlife Mark Shand, 62, was a British travel writer and auctioneer. As a BBC conservationist, he authored a book based on the life of the first female mahout, an elephant handler, in recent times — Parbati Barua of Kaziranga. The book went on to win the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Prix Litteraire d'Amis.
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India: Miscellaneous
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The 15 Indian species on the EDGE list are Bengal Florican, Forest Owlet, Red-headed Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Jerdon's Courser, Lesser Florican, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Sociable Lapwing, Siberian Crane, Great Indian Bustard, Greater Adjutant, White-bellied Heron, Wood Snipe, Masked Finfoot and Christmas Island Frigatebird. #edge #wildlife
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India: Miscellaneous
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A recent study by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Yale University has identified 100 evolutionary distinct and globally endangered (EDGE) bird species from around the world, of which 15 are from India. #edge #wildlife
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Nation with biggest tiger population India.
Estimated number of tigers in India Between 1571 and 1875.
Number of Indian states with tiger populations 17.
Number of Indian states with more than 100 tigers Seven. #wildlife #tiger
Estimated number of tigers killed by poachers in India 923 between 1994 and 2010.
Source: Wildlife Protection Society of India
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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Indian animal welfare officials moved this week to block plans to put performing dolphins on display at theme parks and malls across the country, saying it would violate federal laws about cruelty to animals.Animal Welfare Board of India ruled that dolphin shows and exhibits would violate the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. #wildlife
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Assam’s Floods Take Toll on India’s Rhinos - Monsoon floods have killed at least 600 animals in a national park in Assam, including 14 of India’s rare one-horned rhinos. Kaziranga National Park, spread over 332 square miles in northeastern India, is home to two-thirds of the world’s one-horned rhinos and has other 37 mammal species, including tigers, deer, elephants and wild boar #wildlife
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India: Travel & Tourism
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WWF-India says it is the second photo sighting of endangered snow leopards in Kargil, after one was photographed hunting a herd of Asiatic Ibex in 2009. The recent sighting has encouraged environmentalists as it suggests the big cats were not scared away from the Kargil mountains by the 1999 India-Pakistan conflict. #wildlife #snowleopard
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Rare, reclusive snow leopards have been photographed
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India: Travel & Tourism
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India’s first cross-country luxury train the Maharaja Express will make its maiden journey from Mumbai to Delhi on March 6, 2010, stringing together subcontinental highlights from the iconic Taj Mahal to remote habitats of tigers. #wildlife #indianrailways
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Bird life in all three parks is abundant. There are more than 216 bird species in Mudumalai, and over a period of several hours I spotted a wealth of fowl, including hoopoes, magpie and Indian robins, sunbirds, brainfever birds, cuckoos; jungle, hill and brahminy mynahs; jungle bush-quail, gray partridge, coucals, white-backed vultures, peafowl and rufous-backed shrikes. #wildlife
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