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Tamil Nadu Indira Gandhi National Park - Named after the erstwhile Indian Prime Minister
the Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu
is a treasure house of flora and fauna in the Wildlife Sanctuaries in Tamil Nadu. Wildlife Sanctuaries in Tamil Nadu and the Indira
Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu remains functional
all through the year; however, you can derive
maximum pleasure out of the National park chiefly
during the months between October and March in the Wildlife Sanctuaries in Tamil Nadu. The
Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu is a
significant section of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
and is situated in the Anamalai Hills. In fact,
the Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu
was formerly called the Anamalai Wildlife Sanctuary.
The Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu
offers its visitors several facilities and attractions;
among them are mini safaris, trekking and elephant
rides in the Indian Wildlife Sanctuaries.
Wildlife Sanctuaries in India and the Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu
sprawls across a land area of some 108 Sq Km and
stands at an elevation of 350 to 2,400 meters
above the sea level. Indian Wildlife Sanctuaries and the forest of the Indira
Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu is mostly evergreen
rain forest and has some 8,000 plant species within
its premises in the Wildlife Sanctuaries in India. Among them are teak, combretum ovalifolium,
rosewood, dispyros nilagrica, orchid, impaliens
elegans, ranunculus reniformis and osmundra regulis.
Indian Wildlife Sanctuaries and the animals in the Indira Gandhi National Park
in Tamil Nadu includes such species as elephant,
civet cat, tiger, pangolin, panther, porcupine,
wild boar, Nilgiri Tahr, sloth bear, spotted deer,
sambhar, mouse deer, langur, barking deer and
Malabar giant squirrel. The Indira Gandhi National
Park in Tamil Nadu also houses some avian species
like whistling thrush, paradise fly-catcher, black-headed
oriole, rufus wood pecker, racquet tailed drongo,
Malabar pied hornbill and black eagle in the Wildlife Sanctuaries in India.
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