Enticing Facts About Kaziranga National Park You Didn’t Know Earlier!
The Kaziranga National Park was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site not just because it is a significant natural habitat for conserving biological diversity, but also because it harbors rare and endangered species that are noteworthy for their universal value.You will come across a bewitching variety of wildlife from migratory birds to the largest snakes in the world amidst its equally enthralling vegetation characterized by thick evergreen forests, grasslands, and various unique species of trees.
This Blog will reveal some fascinating facts about Kaziranga National Parkthat you did not know earlier, and even if you did, you’ll find them interesting!
- One of the intriguing facts about Kaziranga National Park is that it is colonized by two of the largest snakes in the world namely the Rock Python and the Reticulated Python along with the longest venomous snake in the world, King Cobra.
- Kaziranga houses the World’s largest population of the Great Indian One-horned Rhinoceros, Eastern Swamp Deers, and the Wild Asiatic Water Buffaloes.
- As per the latest Rhinoceros Census, the rhino population in Kaziranga is 2,413.
- Besides Africa, Kaziranga is one of the few places in the world which houses multiple species of big cats like the Royal Bengal Tigers and the Leopards.
- Similar to the famous African grasslands, Kaziranga National Park also has beautiful grasslands. The Common tall grasses are well known by the name elephant grasses, sugarcane, spear grasses, and common reed.
- Another amazing fact is that it is identified as an Important Bird Area by Birdlife International, it is home to a variety of unique migratory bird species.
- Despite its name being associated with several legends, historians believe it derives from the word ‘Karbi’, Kajir-a-rang, meaning, “the village of Kajir” and Kajir is a common name of a girl child with a widely believed fact that a woman by the same name ruled this area.
- One of the lesser known facts about Kaziranga is that it was in the year 1904 when Mary Curzon who was the wife of Lord Curzon convinced him to take immediate and effective steps to safeguard the rhinoceros of the region and that’s how the Kaziranga National Park came into existence on 1st June 1905.
- Kaziranga is the only one of its kind place in the world where you can see the Eastern Swamp Deer also known as Barasingha which can be identified by its yellow hair and distinctive white spots on its spine and can grow up to 6 feet.
- Kaziranga National Park was once home to seven species of Vultures out of which only three have survived now namely the Indian White-Rumped Vulture, the Indian Vulture, and the Slender-Billed Vulture.
So, how many of these fascinating facts about Kaziranga were you aware of, and how many of them captured your attention?
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