Top 20 Elusive Wild Animals of North East India
North East Indian states are heaven for Wildlife, There are list of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries in Northeast India. These Wildlife Paradise are home to most 10 iconic wild animals found in Northeast India.
How many Wildlife Sanctuaries in North East India?
Collectively, there are 35 plus famous Wildlife Sanctuaries in North East India and around 28 National Parks in North East India.
Big Fives of Kaziranga
Big Fives of Kaziranga – Indian rhinoceros, royal Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, wild water buffalo and swamp deer.
Snow Leopard
Snow leopard is the Apex predator of Himalayas and native to the mountain ranges and snow capped habitat. The snow leopard is distributed through the Indian Himalayas – from Ladakh to Arunachal.
Clouded Leopard
Clouded leopard found from the dense forests at the foothills of the Himalayas through Northeast India.
The arboreal and nocturnal and smallest big cat occurs in the states of Sikkim to Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.
Red Panda
Red panda inhabits coniferous forests of North East India and feeds mainly on bamboo shoots and leaves.
Neora Valley National Park in the Eastern Himalaya of India is good place to spot Red panda in northeast.
Indian Hog Deer
Indian Hog Deer is a small deer species native to the northeast region of India, Mainly in Assam.
Hog deer stag listed as endangered and clouded leopard is a known predator along with Burmese python in India.
Sangai
Manipur brow-antlered deer is known as Sangai and one of the endemic and endangered species of India.
The brow-antlered deer only found in the floating grasslands of Keibul Lamjao National Park in Manipur.
Himalayan Serow
Himalayan serow is native to the Himalayas of India and state animal of Mizoram. This goat-like animal inhabits high hilly forests above an elevation of (980 ft) with Takin and Goral.
Himalayan Goral
Himalayan goral is another bovid species native to Indian Himalayas.The goral occurs in the Himalayas from the states of Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India.
Takin
Takin is one of the large species of ungulate and the national animal of Bhutan. There are four subspecies of takin are currently recognised and Dihang-Dibang Biosphere Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh has stronghold of Takin in northeast India.
Phayre’s Langur
Phayre’s leaf monkey listed as Endangered and only found in Tripura state and feeds on leaves of bamboo, Albizzia lebbek.
Hoolock Gibbon
Hoolock gibbons are only found in south of Brahmaputra valley in northeast states. This primate species is the only Ape found in India.
Golden Langur
The golden langur is a must see wild animal in Assam and considered sacred by many Himalayan people.
Brahmaputra river valley and Manas River bed in Assam are the place where most of the population is found in river forest.
Capped Langur
Capped Langur is another lesser knowna primate species in India, found in tropical dry forest of northeast India, mostly in Namdapha National Park in Arunachal Pradesh.
Asian Golden Cat
This medium-sized wild cat found only in the northeastern Indian subcontinent,threatened by poaching and habitat destruction.
Nocturnal golden cat were recorded from Buxa Tiger Reserve, Manas National Park and Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary.
Malayan Sun Bear
Malayan sun bear is the smallest species of bear found in India from the family of Ursidae. The sun bear can be found in mainly coastal areas in southeast Asia and India–Myanmar border.
Binturong
Binturong is a viverrid species and one of the known bearcat found in India along with other 7 species of civet or toddy cat.
Endemic and endangered species of flying squirrel, found only in Namdapha National Park of Arunachal Pradesh. Mechuka giant flying squirrel and Mishmi Hills giant flying squirrel are two more known species of flying squirrels found in Arunachal Pradesh.
The Northeast Indian states are biodiversity hotspot and home to Endemic and Endangered Species Yellow-throated marten, Spotted linsang, spectacled langur and species of wild cats like marbled cat.
