Chitwan National Park is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal. The park contains significant breeding populations of more than 68 mammalian species, out of which 14 are threatened according to the IUCN Red List. It is refuge for the world's second largest population of great one-horned rhinoceros. Chitwan has the rare distinction of being one of the very few places in the world which contain breeding populations of three big cats outside Africa — the royal Bengal tiger, the Indian leopard and the clouded leopard. Chitwan has the highest population of tigers among protected areas in Nepal. The park also has large breeding populations of asian elephant, gaur and Various Species of deer. The park received 18 wild water buffalo from Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in 2016.
List of mammals
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- Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
- Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
- Asian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus)
- Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
- Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
- Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca)
- Dhole (Cuon alpinus)
- Striped Hyena (Hyaena hyaena)
- Wild boar (Sus scrofa cristatus)
- Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)
- Gaur (Bos gaurus)
- Chital (Axis axis)
- Sambar deer (Rusa unicolor)
- Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)
- Hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus)
- Himalayan serow (Capricornis sumatraensis thar)
- Four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis)
- Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus)
- Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatto)
- Gray langur (Semnopithecus entellus)
- Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)
- Indian porcupine (Hystrix indica)
- Fishing cat (Felis viverrina)
- Marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata)
- Jungle cat (Felis chaus)
- Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
- Honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
- Spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor)
- Yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula)
- Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)
- Large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha)
- Small Indian civet (Viverricula indica)
- Crab-eating mongoose (Urva urva)
- Indian gray mongoose (Urva edwardsii)
- Small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata)
- Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis)
- Indian jackal (Canis aureus indicus)
- Common otter (Lutra lutra)
- Ganges and Indus river dolphin (Platanista gangetica)
- Bat, various species
References
- Bhuju, U. R., Shakya, P. R., Basnet, T. B., Shrestha, S. (2007). Nepal Biodiversity Resource Book. Protected Areas, Ramsar Sites, and World Heritage Sites. Archived 2012-03-01 at the Wayback Machine International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, in cooperation with United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Kathmandu, ISBN 978-92-9115-033-5
- Gee, E. P. (1959). Report on a survey of the rhinoceros area of Nepal. Oryx 5: 67–76.
- Kandel, R. C.; Poudel, R. C.; Sadaula, A.; Kandel, P.; Gairhe, K. P.; Pokheral, C. P.; Bajracharya, S. B.; Chalise, M. K. & Solanki, G. S. (2019). "Revisiting genetic structure of Wild Buffaloes Bubalus arnee Kerr, 1792 (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Bovidae) in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal: an assessment for translocation programs". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 11 (15): 14942–14954. doi:10.11609/jott.4940.11.15.14942-14954.
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