MANAS NATIONAL PARK

Manas  National Park is a tiger reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Assam. It is one of the most fascinating National Parks in India and the home to some rare mammals like the Golden Langur, Hispid Hare and the Pygmy Hog. The Golden Langur, a blond species of the Langurs is more common in forests on the Bhutanese side .The Hispid Hare or Assamese Rabbit is darker brown than the Black- Napped Hare, and is covered in coarse bristly hair.   

The pygmy hog, a small hairy version of the wild boar with a more attenuated snout and rounded rear is found nowhere else in the world. Both the Hispid Hare  and the  Pygmy  Hog  inhabit  thatch - scrub  and  grassland  and  were

thought extinct until rediscovered in 1971. Other mammals include Wild Buffalo, Indian Bison, Elephant, Rhino, Tiger, Hog Deer, Sambar, Barking Deer, Swamp Deer, Spotted Deer, Himalayan Bear, Wild Boar, Leopard, and Clouded Leopard etc.

Manas has survived decades of insurgency & it was recently re opened to visitors. But the Great Indian One Horned Rhinoceros has become extinct here & researches are on to re introduce the same  in the near future. Consisting of grassland, dry and moist deciduous & also rain forests, Manas has an area of 520 sq km & with the Bhutanese govt. protecting the Bhutanese side of the jungle there is a stretch of about 3500 sq km of protected area on  both sides of the border.

Manas has recorded 380 species or more birds.

Interesting Species: Swamp Francolin, Bengal Florican, Wreathed, Oriental Pied & Great Hornbills, Collared Falconet, Speckled Piculet, Rufous-vented Laughingthrush, Ashy Wood Pigeon, Thick-billed & Orange-breasted Green Pigeons,Pale-capped Pigeon,Barred Cuckoo Dove, Red-headed Trogon, Rosy Minivet, Sultan, Yellow-cheeked and Black-throated Tits, Rufous-vented Laughingthrush, Pied Harrier, Black Francolin, Bengal Bushlark, Chestnut-capped & Striated Babblers, White-tailed Nuthatch, Wallcreeper, Ashy-throated and Grey-hooded Warblers, Rufous-bellied Eagle, Grey and Savanna Nightjars, Ruddy Kingfisher etc.

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