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.
Category Archive: Animal Facts
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.
We much use the term ‘donkey’ to insult others or pull a joke or two but not many […]
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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 […]