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An Asiatic lion cub in Gir Forest National Park, India. The wildlife of South Asia encompasses that of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and the Maldives.
The tiger is the largest carnivorous mammal in Asia. [1] [2]The animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands are considered the fauna of Asia.Since there is no natural biogeographic boundary in the west between Europe and Asia, the term "fauna of Asia" is somewhat elusive but it is a geographical name given.
Fauna of South Asia. Animal taxa native to the Southern Asian region located west of Southeast Asia, south of Central Asia, and east of Western Asia. Countries of South Asia include: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives, and the British Indian Ocean Territory.
During the last glacial period, sea levels were lower and all of Sundaland was an extension of the Asian continent. As a result, the modern islands of Sundaland are home to many Asian mammals including elephants, monkeys, apes, tigers, tapirs, and rhinoceros. The flooding of Sundaland separated species that had once shared the same environment.
The original drawing of the line in Wallace's paper. One of the earliest descriptions of the biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago dates back to 1521 when Venetian explorer Pigafetta recorded the biological contrasts between the Philippines and the Maluku Islands (Spice Islands) (on opposite sides of the Wallace's Line) during the continuation of the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan ...
The Cardamom Mountains rain forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Southeast Asia, as identified by the WWF.The ecoregion covers the Cardamom Mountains and Elephant Mountains and the adjacent coastal lowlands in eastern Thailand and southwestern Cambodia, as well as the Vietnamese island of Dao Phu Quoc.
Fauna of South Asia (16 C, 36 P) Fauna of Southeast Asia (23 C, 111 P) T. Fauna of Timor (5 C, 12 P, 3 F) W. Fauna of West Asia (25 C, 14 P) This page was ...
Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, which also includes the erstwhile Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, is a 643.66 square kilometres (248.5 sq mi) [2] protected area lying in Palakkad district and Thrissur district of Kerala state, South India.