Mammals of Southern India – a trip to Nagarhole NP

This talk will be based on a trip to Nagarhole National Park in the western Ghats in southern India. The park was setup in 1955 as a wildlife sanctuary and later its area increased to 643.39 km (399.78 mi. It was declared a tiger reserve in 1999. It had been an exclusive hunting reserve for the local kings.

The park has a healthy population of Chital, Sambar and Gaur which support an increasing population of Tigers. There are also Leopard and Dhole  Dhole have an extensive range across east Asia but in spite of this they have an estimated adult population of less than 2500 individuals, making them rarer than Tigers.