Monday 1 August 2016

Kaziranga National Park

I always knew that India had a lot of wonderful monuments but I never thought that there were so many Parks with so many wildlife!

One-horned Rhinos in Kaziranga
This postcard was sent by Col Akhil

Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site.
The park has the distinction of being home to the world's largest population of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros(1,855), wild Asiatic water buffalo (1,666) and eastern swamp deer (468). Significant populations of large herbivores include elephants (1,940), gaur (30) and sambar (58). Small herbivores include the Indian muntjacwild boar, and hog deer. Kaziranga has the largest population of the Wild water buffalo anywhere accounting for about 57% of the world population. - in: wikipedia

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