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Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat, Sonitpur, Biswanath and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. KNP has 5 ranges. KNP has 5 ranges. The park, which hosts two-thirds of the world's Indian rhinoceroses , is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . [ 2 ]
The Kaziranga National Park is home to a wide variety of aquatic life including about 42 species of freshwater fish. These species include speciality species such as a freshwater pufferfish Tetraodon cutcutia. [1]
Kaziranga National Park's landscape is the creation of natural forces of silt deposition and erosion that has been effected by the river Brahmaputra over hundreds of years. This ongoing process of erosion and deposition becomes more severe during the floods which occur at regular intervals during the monsoon season. [ 3 ]
The park is home to the rare monocled cobra, and three of the Big Four - Indian cobra, Russell's viper, and common krait. In all, Kaziranga is home to 15 species of turtles, including the endemic Assam roofed turtle, and to one species of tortoise - the brown tortoise. A regional lizard species is also found in Kaziranga - the Assam garden lizard.
Kaziranga National Park (Assamese: কাজিৰঙা ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় উদ্যান, IAST: kājirangā rāstriya uddyāna), is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of Assam, India. It is a World Heritage Site, and two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned Rhinoceroses live in the park.
A rhinoceros grazing at Kaziranga National Park. The park contains significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species, [3] out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List. [4] 479 species of birds (both migratory and resident) have been spotted at the park, including 25 globally threatened and 21 near threatened ...
A rhinoceros grazing at Kaziranga National Park. Kaziranga National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in India. The park contains significant breeding populations of more than 35 mammalian species, [1] out of which 15 are threatened according to the IUCN Red List. [2]
Frequent sonic booms caused by the aircraft of the Indian Air Force flying over the park are a potential source of external disturbance to the wild animals in the park. [8] The 54 km length of the National Highway (NH) 37 runs almost parallel to the southern boundary of Kaziranga National Park between Bokakhat and Ghorakati.