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The Barasingha (sometimes spelt Barasinga) is a type of deer, native to India and Nepal. In Assam in the North-East India, Barasingha is traditionally known as Dolhorina similar to its English name as dol in Assamese means swamp. In Central India it is called goinjak (male) or gaoni (female). The most striking feature of a barasingha is its antlers, with 10-14 tines on a mature stag, though some have been known to have up to 20.[1] The name is derived from this and means 12 tined or horned in Hindi. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Description and habits
Two geographic races were earlier recognized. The nominate duvauceli which is swamp-dwelling and found in the Terai of Uttar Pradesh, Assam and in the Sunderbans. This race has splayed hooves that help in moving on the soft ground and have a larger skull. The race branderi (named after A. A. Dunbar Brander) is found on hard ground in Central India, chiefly in Madhya Pradesh.[1] The race in Assam was subsequently assigned to a new race ranjitsinhi after M. K. Ranjitsinh.[2] This race is considered the most threatened of the three.
A stag may stand 134cm at the shoulder and weigh from 170-180kg. Average antlers may measure 75 cms round the curve with a girth of 13cm at mid beam. A record antler measured 104.1 cms round the curve.[1]
In the Terai the deer lives on marshland is rarely seen outside it. In Central India they live in grasslands in the proximity of forests. They feed in the mornings and in the evenings. They are less nocturnal than the Sambar deer. When alarmed they give out a shrill baying alarm call.[1] Binomial name Cervus unicolor (Kerr, 1792) Sambar Sambar, common name for several large dark brown and maned Asian deer, particularly for the Indian species, which attains a height of 102 to 160 cm (40 to 63 in) at the shoulder and may weigh as much as 272 kg (600 lb). ...
The breeding season is from September to April and births occur after a gestation of 240-250 days in August to November. The peak is in September October in Kanha.[3] They give birth to a single calf. Captive specimens live upto 23 years.
In central India, the herds are mized with a females numbering twice as many as males. The herds were on average about 8-20 in size with large herds of upto 60. During the rut they form large herds of adults.[3]
Distribution and status At one time the Barasingha was distributed throughout the basins of Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, as well as in central India as far as the Godavari river. Bones dating back over a thousand years have been found in the Langhanj site in Gujarat. Today, however, the species has disappeared entirely from the western part of its range. In 1964, the total for India was estimated at three to four thousand head.[citation needed] The position of the Sindhu River in Iron Age (Vedic) India. ...
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In central India, Barasingha disappeared from all but the Kanha National Park. Even here, from an estimated three thousand in the early 1950s, within a decade less than a hundred survived. And the number touched an all time low of 66 in 1970. Kanha National Park, part of Project Tiger, is located in Madhya Pradesh, India. ...
Hunting, poaching and, more important, diversion of the bulk of grassland to agriculture, are considered the main causes of their reduced numbers. Tall grass is not only their food but also provides security for young fawns during the breeding season.
George Schaller wrote in The Deer and The Tiger, "Most of these remnants have or soon will have reached the point of no return." The warning, however, was heeded in time. Concerted efforts at saving this species from extinction were made and have now borne fruit. Today, their count has crossed the five hundred mark. Dr. George Schaller at a lecture in Beijing Zoo on Aug. ...
Introduced populations Along with Indian Blackbuck, Nilgai and many other exotic deer and antelope many from Africa, there are also Barasingha now found living in the wild in Texas, USA on lands managed as Hunting Ranches. Barasingha were brought to USA almost a 100 year back to be introduced in the wild on land which is managed for sport hunting. Hunters for whom bagging a stag with huge antlers with as many points as possible is a novelty, pay about $40000 as trophy fees for hunting a Barasingha, 10% of which is supposed to go back to India to preserve it and its habitat in its true home range where it is close to extinction. It is a USA Government policy now that 10% of trophy fees for Hunting an exotic species found on Hunting Ranches in USA should be sent back for the preservation of that species and its original habitat in its true home range / country. Binomial name Antilope cervicapra (Linnaeus, 1758) The Black Buck (Antilope cervicapra) or Indian Black Buck antelope, is a small antelope native to Northern India, Pakistan and Nepal. ...
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Cultural references The Barasingha is mentioned also in one of the chapters of the Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat by the name of "barasingh." It befreinds Purun Bhagat because the man rubs the stag's velvet off his horns. Purun Bhagat then gives the barasinga nights in the shrine he is staying at with his warm fire, along with a few fresh chesnuts every now and then. Later as pay, the stag warns Purun Bhagat and his town about how the mountain they live on is crumbling. This article is about the British author. ...
Notes - ^ a b c d Prater, S. H. (1948) The book of Indian animals. Oxford University Press. (10th impression)
- ^ Groves, Colin. 1983 Geographic variation in the Barasingha or Swamp Deer (Cervus duvauceli). J. Bombay N.H. Soc. 79:620-629.
- ^ a b Schaller, G.B. 1967. The Deer and the Tiger - A Study of Wildlife in India. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
References Ahmedabad (Gujarati: , Hindi: अहमदाबाद ) is the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest urban agglomeration in India, with a population of almost 51 lakhs (5. ...
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See also Kanha National Park, part of Project Tiger, is located in Madhya Pradesh, India. ...
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