Nagarhole National Park

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Nagarhole has a large population of elephants
Location of the national park (here referred to as Rajiv Gandhi NP ) in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

The Nagarhole National Park , also known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park is designated a protected area in the south of India in the state of Karnataka . It is embedded between the Western Ghats and the Nilgiri Mountains and extends over an area of ​​around 640 square kilometers in the Kodagu and Mysore districts . Together with the neighboring Bandipur National Park (approx. 870 km²) and the Mudumalai National Park (approx. 320 km²) it forms the largest complex of protected areas in South India.

The vegetation consists mainly of tropical forests and bush and grasslands. The north-western areas of the reserve are more humid than the southern areas, where the park is adjacent to the Bandipur National Park.

The reserve offers a habitat for numerous large animals that have already been exterminated elsewhere. Nagarhole, for example, has a considerable elephant population, which mainly gather at the reservoirs during the dry season. Large predators include tigers , leopards , sloth bears and Asian wild dogs . The ungulates are by Gaure , four-horn antelope , sambar , spotted deer , barking deer , India Kant Chile represented and wild boar. With hat monkeys , hanuman langurs and wanderus , monkeys come in three different species. In the mountains around the park there are also Nilgiri Tahrans and Nilgiri langurs .

  • tiger

  • Axis deer

  • elephant

  • Male gaur

literature

  • KK Gurung & Raj Singh: Field Guide to the Mammals of the Indian Subcontinent , Academic Press, San Diego, ISBN 0-12-309350-3
  • William Riley, Laura Riley: Nature's Strongholds. The World's Great Wildlife Reserves. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-691-12219-9

Web links

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Coordinates: 12 ° 2 ′ 6 ″  N , 76 ° 8 ′ 6 ″  E