Scientific Name : Manis crassicaudata IUCN : Endangered It is also called thick-tailed pangolin and scaly anteater is a pangolin native to the Indian subcontinent. Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its...
Scientific Name : Panthera leo IUCN Status : Vulnerable The lion is a large cat of the genus Panthera native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body, short, rounded head, round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a...
Scientific Name : Panthera pardus IUCN Status : Vulnerable Leopard is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera, a member of the cat family, Felidae. It occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa, in some parts of Western and Central Asia, Southern Russia, and on the Indian subcontinent to Southeast and East Asia. Compared to other wild cats,...
Scientific Name : Axis axis IUCN Status : Least Concern It is also known as spotted deer, chital deer, and axis deer, is a deer species native to the Indian subcontinent. It was first described and given a binomial name by German naturalist Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben in 1777. A moderate-sized deer, male chital reach nearly 90 cm (35 in)...
Scientic Name : Moschiola Indica IUCN Status : Least Concern It is a species of even-toed ungulate in the family Tragulidae. It is native to India and possibly Nepal. It lives in rainforests and is nocturnal. It has a body length of 57.5 cm (22.6 in) with a 2.5 cm (0.98 in) long tail length and weighs around...
Scientific Name : Prionailurus rubiginosus IUCN Status : Near Threatened The rusty-spotted cat has a short reddish grey fur over most of the body with rusty spots on the back and flanks. Four blackish lines run over the eyes, and two of them extend over the neck. The distribution...
Scientific Name : Neofelis nebulosa IUCN Status : Vulnerable The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) also called the mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat inhabiting dense forests from the foothills of the Himalayas through mainland Southeast Asia into South China. It has large dusky-grey blotches and irregular...
Scientific name : Ailurus fulgens IUCN Status : Endangered The red panda also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. The red panda has a relatively small head, though proportionally larger than in similarly sized raccoons, with a reduced snout and triangular ears, and nearly evenly lengthed...
Scientific name : Nilgiritragus hylocrius IUCN Status : Endangered The Nilgiri tahr is a stocky goat with short, coarse fur and a bristly mane. Males are larger than females and of darker colour when mature. It can be found only in India. It is the state animal...
Scientific Name : Prionailurus viverrinus IUCN Status : Vulnerable The fishing cat has a deep yellowish grey fur with black lines and spots Fishing cat is broadly but discontinuously distributed in south and south east Asia. It is strongly associated with wetlands inhabiting swamps and marshy areas....
