🇮🇳 Animals of India

The African wildcat is a small striped cat of dry Africa and Asia, and the ancestor of every domestic cat.

The Asian black bear is a medium-sized forest bear of Asia with a pale crescent on its chest and a gift for climbing.

The Asian palm civet is a small, cat-like viverrid of South and Southeast Asia that climbs trees at night to eat fruit.

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The bearded vulture is a huge mountain raptor that lives almost entirely on bone.

The binturong is a large, shaggy civet of the South and Southeast Asian forest canopy.

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The clouded leopard is a mid-sized cat of the forests of the Himalayan foothills, Southeast Asia and southern China.

The clownfish lives inside the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone, which it cleans and defends in return.

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.

The Eurasian collared dove is a pale grey dove with a black half-collar on the neck.

The Eurasian lynx is the biggest of the four lynx species and the largest wild cat in Europe.

The Eurasian sparrowhawk is a small hawk that hunts other birds by ambush.

The gaur, or Indian bison, is the largest of all wild cattle, a forest bovine of India and Southeast Asia.

The golden jackal is a small wolf-like canid of Europe and southern Asia that lives in lifelong pairs and eats anything from voles to fruit.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo.

The grey heron is a tall grey and white wading bird of European, Asian and African wetlands.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The Indian peafowl is the large ground bird of India and Sri Lanka, and it is India's national bird.

The Indian rhinoceros is the largest rhino in Asia, a one-horned grazer with thick, folded grey skin.

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake.

The leopard is a spotted big cat that lives across Africa and Asia in more kinds of country than any other cat.

The leopard cat is a small spotted cat found across South, Southeast and East Asia, from Pakistan to the Russian Far East.

The lion is the only cat that lives in social groups.

The nilgai is Asia's largest antelope, a heavy, thin-legged grazer of the scrub and farmland of northern India and Nepal.

The Pallas's cat is a small, thick-furred wild cat of the Central Asian steppe and mountains.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The rhesus macaque is a brown monkey with a pink face that lives in large, rank-ordered troops across South and East Asia.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The rose-ringed parakeet is a slim green parrot with a red bill and a very long tail.

The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile.

The sloth bear is a shaggy, long-clawed bear of India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka that lives on termites, ants and fruit.

The snow leopard lives on steep, rocky slopes high in the mountains of Central Asia.

The striped hyena is a small, shaggy scavenger of dry country from North Africa to India.

The tiger is the largest living cat and the only one with stripes.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.