Indian Elephant Quiz — Test Your Knowledge
From tusks to territory — how much do you know? · 10 questions · Multiple choice
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In 1967, there were just 66 barasingha left in Kanha. All of them lived in one meadow in that forest. This is how India pulled its most improbable deer back from the edge.
🐯 Indian Wildlife Quiz
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The Chousingha is the only living animal in the world with four horns. It lives in India’s dry forests, weighs less than a medium-sized dog, and is classified as Vulnerable — yet most Indians have never heard of it.
India is famous for its tigers and elephants. But its forests, grasslands, and high-altitude plateaus are also home to one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of deer and antelope — many of them little known, some of them barely hanging on.
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♦ Globally, nature provides services worth around US$125 trillion a year, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report.
♦ In the 20th century, freshwater fish have had the highest extinction rate worldwide among vertebrates.
♦ Nearly 200 million people depend on coral reefs for protection against storm surge and waves.
♦ Rainforests are shrinking: almost 20% of the Amazon has disappeared in just 50 years.
♦ In the last 50 years, global average temperature has risen at 170 times the background rate.
♦ At least 70% of new small molecule drugs introduced over the past 25 years have come from a natural source.
♦ Almost 6 billion tonnes of fish and other seafood have been taken from the world’s oceans since 1950.
♦ Today, 90% of the world’s seabirds are estimated to have fragments of plastic in their stomach.
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Tiger is India’s national animal. Here are some interesting facts: Status: endangered Only 3,200 tigers remain in the […]