Adjutant Stork and Chitals grazing in the wilderness of Kanha National Park

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Greater Adjutant Stork and Cheetal or Axis deer grazing in the wilderness of Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India.

Chitals or spotted deers are a common deer species found in India. It can be found roaming in the forests of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and in small numbers in Pakistan. Spotted deers are usually found flocked together in dense deciduous or semi-evergreen forests and open grasslands. The population of chitals are enormous in widlife parks such as the Corbett, Kanha, Dudhwa, Bandhavgarh, Mudumalai and Sariska.

Kanha National Park is a national park and a Tiger Reserve in the Mandla and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. In the 1930s, Kanha area was divided into two sanctuaries, Hallon and Banjar, of 250 and 300 km² . Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1955. Today it stretches over an area of 940 km² in the two districts Mandla and Balaghat. Together with a surrounding buffer zone of 1,067 km² and the neighboring 110 km² Phen Sanctuary it forms the Kanha Tiger Reserve. This makes it the largest National Park in Central India.

The park has a significant population of Royal Bengal Tiger, leopards, the sloth bear, Barasingha and Indian wild dog. The lush sal and bamboo forests, grassy meadows and ravines of Kanha provided inspiration to Rudyard Kipling for his famous novel "Jungle Book "

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