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Central Board of Secondary Education expression series is an online/offline essay/poem/drawing competition organised by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India for classes 1 to 12. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was initiated in 2014.
India is home to 423 mammals, 1233 birds, 526 reptiles, 342 amphibians, 3022 fish apart from other species which form 7.6% of mammal, 14.7% of amphibian, 6% of bird, 6.2% of reptilian species worldwide. [3] [5] Among Indian species, only 12.6% of mammals and 4.5% of birds are endemic, contrasting with 45.8% of reptiles and 55.8% of amphibians. [5]
A lion (Panthera leo).Lions are an example of charismatic megafauna, a group of wildlife species that are especially popular in human culture.. Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. [1]
Many animals are domesticated in India, and seeing them in the streets of villages and even cities is common. Bovines include the zebu , which descended from the extinct Indian aurochs , the domestic water buffalo , the gayal , which is a domesticated gaur, and in the northern regions domestic yak , which descended from the also native wild yak .
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A nine-year old lioness and a 12-year-old lion after contracting Covid-19 in June 2021. [179] Out of 15 lions at the zoo, 11 tested positive for SARS‑CoV‑2 . [ 180 ] Experts from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University were tasked with dealing the outbreak.
Overall "stock turnover" of animals during a year in a select group of poor zoos was reported as 20%-25% with 75% of wild caught apes dying in captivity within the first 20 months. [69] The authors of the report stated that before successful breeding programs, the high mortality rate was the reason for the "massive scale of importations."
Fauna comes from the name Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns.All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and panis is the Modern Greek equivalent of fauna (πανίς or rather πανίδα).