Mukurthi National Park, Western Ghats
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Mukurthi National Park is a 78.46 km2 protected area located in the western corner of the Nilgiris Plateau west of Ootacamund hill station in the northwest corner of Tamil Nadu state in the Western Ghats mountain range of South India. The park was created to protect its keystone species, the Nilgiri tahr. ()
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Bengal tiger
The Bengal tiger is a population of Panthera tigris tigris native to the Indian subcontinent. It is threatened by poaching, loss, and fragmentation of habitat, and was estimated at...
Mammals
Asiatic Wild Dog, Red Dog, Dhole
The dhole is a canid native to Central, South, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Other English names for the species include Asian wild dog, Asiatic wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog...
Mammals
Sambar deer
The sambar is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China, and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008.
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Indian elephant
The Indian elephant is one of three extant recognised subspecies of the Asian elephant and native to mainland Asia. Since 1986, the Asian elephant has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN...
Mammals
Nilgiri tahr
The Nilgiri tahr is an ungulate that is endemic to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western & Eastern Ghats in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India. It...
Mammals
Kerala