Banjaar Tola, Kanna National Park

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One of the largest and most scenic wildlife sanctuaries in India, Kanha National Park is an ideal habitat for both tigers and their prey species. The lush sal and bamboo forests, grassy meadows and ravines of Kanha shelter a significant population of rare species such as tiger, leopard, sloth bear, barasingha and wild dog.

Kanha's mixed forests are interspersed with vast meadows known as maidans. These meadows support a high density of herbivores, including chital, barasingha, sambar and gaur, attracting predators such as the tiger, dhole or leopard to the fringes of the clearings. Perennial streams run through a number of such meadows, providing a source of water for the wildlife even in the hot summers. Kanha meadow, with its hundreds of chital grazing on a carpet of green grass against the backdrop of the majestic Sal forest, has been aptly referred to as 'the Ngorongoro of India".

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Monkeys get to the water

When we were driving next to large water body, we stopped to watch a big troop of langurs near the water. Two of them were actually inside the water and feeding on aquatic plants. Other monkeys like macaques get into the water easily not just for food but also for fun during the hot months. langurs very rarely get inside the water, they may some time...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Harsha J, Date: 12 December 2009

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Unexpected Road Crosser

Saw this shy Sloth Bear crossing the road. Most of the time in the park, only tracks & signs of this mammal is found. Sighting a Sloth Bear always becomes special because of its elusiveness.

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Durgesh Singh, Date: 8 December 2009

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Rutting Barasingha Stag

A lone Barasingha stag gave out its first rutting calls when we were watching him on a grassland. Lately, lot of stags have got their hard antlers and seeing them locking their antlers with another male is a interesting sight in the grasslands of Kanha. Their calls are like long bugling which goes on for sometime & can be compared to a rise & fall of a...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Durgesh Singh, Date: 1 December 2009

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Clash of the Giants

Today morning I came across a small herd of Gaur moving near to the road. One big bull was following a female and was sniffing her back. It gave a call which sounds like a extended "moo". After sometime another big bull started walking down the road. This made the younger bull stand across the road displaying his dorsal ridge to the the older bull. The...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Durgesh Singh, Date: 28 October 2009

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Brave fighter!

A small soft bodied Insect Preying mantis is like any other insects uses its body shape and colour to get camouflage not just hunt but also not to get hunted. We found this mantis on middle of the road and as at was out of its camouflage surroundings it was moving very slow so that it would not attract any predators. But one calotes lizard spotted it and...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Harsha J, Date: 22 October 2009

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Season begins!

We are back in action after Banjaar Tola re opens at Kanha National Park after three and half months of monsoon. Jungle is lush green & thick with animal getting their rich winter coats. They also getting ready for their annual rut. Barasingha stags (swamp deer) are already with beautiful antlers in velvet. The resident Tigress's three cubs have survived...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Harsha J, Date: 16 October 2009

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Snake and Monkeys

At a small man made water hole we had stopped to watch this big playful group of Langurs with many young ones. When suddenly few young langurs started to cry loud. Usually they cry when big males discipline them or one gets bulled by a gang and many times adults ignore them. But these young langurs were looking at a small depression and few were standing...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Harsha J, Date: 7 June 2009

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Indifferent Tiger or Bold Chitals

When I reached the waterhole, distress calls were echoing the jungle with two groups of Spotted Deer (Chital) standing with their tails up. They were looking at the edge of the waterhole though nothing of a predator was visible due to some mud mounds. After waiting for 15mins, we saw the tiger walking out of the water. This started a round of more alarm...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Durgesh Singh, Date: 31 May 2009

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The Delicacy

On the evening of May 27, 2009, I was patrolling the hot-spots for cats in the Mukki zone. When a vehicle alerted us of an unusually bold leopard they had come across, walking along on a forest road. It was unperturbed by their presence and permitted them to follow him for, they said, twenty five minutes. They left it at the shoulder of the road, maybe...

Posted: Banjaar Tola by Alger Fernandes, Date: 27 May 2009

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Sloth Bear and a Cub in tow !

Sloth Bears are such shy creatures and to see one is itself such a treat, let alone get a photograph! This morning, we got really lucky! We first saw one of them in the dense cover and it looked really big! Then we realised that they were actually two of them! We waited for some time and they began to move towards the road..and soon crossed it! Notice how...