🇳🇵 Animals of Nepal

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

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

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 gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.

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

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

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

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.