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The Namdapha Flying Squirrel, Arunachal Pradesh In continuation to my earlier post on the Lion-tailed Macaque , here are pictures of some more animals that are endemic to India.These pictures have been taken by Soma Jha. The Namdapha Flying Squirrel is found in Arunachal Pradesh. It happens to be in the critically endangered list because of loss of habitat and also because it is hunted for food and fur. The Ruddy Mongoose (pictures given below) is found in Peninsular India and is endemic to India and Sri Lanka. Ruddy Mongoose, Mudumalai Ruddy Mongoose, South India

Male tiger at Kanha National Park, India My sister, Soma, recently went for a trip to Kanha National Park and Pench in Madhyapradesh. And guess what...she sighted not one ...not two ...not even three...but seven tigers! She is so lucky, she sighted tigers in both the national parks she visited, Kanha and Pench. At Kancha National park, the chances of sighting a tiger is very high. Though in her case she spotted the maximum number of tigers in Pench! Soma tells me that she had given up any hopes of sighting a tiger, when all of a sudden, during one of her last safari trips (fifth safari), she sighted a male tiger in Kanha for over fifteen minutes! Kanha National Park is located in Madhya Pradesh. The nearest airport is at Jabalpur (175 km). Soma and her group flew to Nagpur from Kolkata, and then hired a transport to take her to Kancha. Kanha has a rich habitat of many otehr animals like the Sloth bear, leopard, striped hyena, spotted dear, wild boar, jungle cat, jackal and a va...