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Indian Rhino's Diet

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The Indian rhinoceros are herbivores. They prefer a wide variety of plants with different seasons. Moreover, 80% of the Indian rhino’s diet constitutes different varieties of grasses. Hence grassland is more critical for rhinoceros’ survival. Besides grasses rhinoceros also prefer seasonal fruit, tender twigs of trees and shrubs, varieties of herbs, and aquatic plants. They also like roots, flowers of different plant species. They are good grazer so they can control particular grassland areas and broadly a microhabitat manager. They like to prefer species like Scacharum sps. Narenga prophyrocoma, Arundo donax, Phragmities karka, Cynodon dactylon, Hermathia compressa, Cyperous sps, Alpinia allughas , Malastoma sp, Anthocephalus   cadamba Bombax   ceiba , Dillenia indica , Emblica officinalis, Ficus glomerata, Paederia foetida , Vallisneria spiralis and many more. Rhinoceros are water-loving animals, but during flood season they avoided fast-flow...

The National Bird

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                                     The Indian peafowl is the national bird of India. Peacock is inordinately entangling with Indian culture & history. This is a common bird of Manas National Park. It is the resident of India, southeast Pakistan, Nepal, and Bhutan. They are long and slender with a long face that has black and white colors on it. They have a short and sharp bill. They tend to be very social and their groups are referred to as parties.    They will also do well isolated, but it is usually, the older males that aren’t with a group.   The Male has a blue neck and breast and spectacular glossy green train. Significantly, the long ‘tail’ of peacock known as a ‘train’. The train consist of highly elongated tail coverts. The train of it can take up more than 40% of the overall body. The females lack elongated upper tail coverts; has w...