Barasingha means 12-tined, or 12-horned in Hindi.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
A stag emerges from Sal forest.
Kanha National park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
A stag showing off a magnificent rack of new antlers. It'd better be alert, as bamboo is a favoured hunting ground for Tigers.
Kanha National park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Love the 'mullet' on this guy!
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India,
AKA as Five-striped Palm Squirrel
Still fresh (?).
Shot early one morning, while dangling over the side of a gypsy/jeep in Kanha National Park.
Kanha National Park has the last remaining population of the hard ground sub-species of Barasingha, having become extinct elsewhere in Central India. Even here, the population declined from an estimated 3000 individuals in the early 1950s, to less than 100 a decade later, touching an all time low of 66 in 1970. Concerted efforts were made to save this species from extinction and the population recovered to 475 in 2010. A translocation viability study began in January 2012 to help protect the deer population from the extinction risk of disease.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
5/5 She finally settled to relax in tall grass to do what cats do - wash & brush-up and a roll around.
Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India.
Tigress Omarpani walks a whisker too close for the fixed focal length lens to frame her.
Open jeep/gypsy - 7.9m, 300mm lens.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh.
Munna enjoying a chewy bit of Spotted Deer.
90mm, 6.3m from Elephant back. Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
A female Northern Red Muntjac, formerly Indian Muntjac (Barking Deer) looking out from the undergrowth.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
The lovely young female, Omarpani, resting in tall grass. Elephant back, 7.9m, 250mm lens
AKA Grey Langur, monkey with an itchy foot. These are venerated by Hindus as a god and are the most widespread langur in India.
Currently, there is considerable taxonomical debate between 'lumpers' & 'splitters'. Single species, several subspecies, or different species?
I've now applied KISS to the colloquial name.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
First birds I saw as I came out of New Delhi Airport, but this individual was in much more rural surroundings. It was hoping to share my breakfast of aloo paratha, hardboiled egg and the essential hot mango pickle.
Kanha national Park, Madhya Pradesh, India
Who said you should never photograph a bird from below?
Buffer zone of Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Then a quick 'twirl' to present a dorsal view to show its long tail.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Ventral view.
Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
This should please the life-listers:
Indian Thick-knee (Bur
