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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
(VIRTUAL CLASSES) – LESSON NOTES

Class - IX Geography
Chapter - 5 Natural Vegetation and Wildlife

(VIRTUAL CLASSES) - MODULE-2.4
WILDLIFE

India is also rich in its fauna. It has approximately 90,000 animal species.

The country has about 2,000 species of birds. They constitute 13% of the world’s total.

There are 2,546 species of fish, which account for nearly 12% of the world’s stock.
It also shares between 5 and 8 per cent of the world’s amphibians, reptiles and mammals.

The elephants are the most majestic animals among the mammals. They are found in the hot
wet forests of Assam, Karnataka and Kerala.

One-horned rhinoceroses are the other animals, which live in swampy and marshy lands of
Assam and West Bengal.

Arid areas of the Rann of Kachchh and the Thar Desert are the habitat for wild ass and

camels respectively.
Indian bison, nilgai (blue bull), chousingha (four-horned antelope), gazel and different

species of deer are some other animals found in India.
It also has several species of monkeys.

Wildlife Protection Act was implemented in 1972 in India.

 India is the only country in the world that has both tigers and lions.
 The natural habitat of the Indian lion is the Gir forest in Gujarat.

 Tigers are found in the forests of Madhya Pradesh, the Sundarbans of West Bengal and the

Himalayan region.
 Leopards, too, are members of the cat family. They are important among animals of prey.

The Gir Forest is the last remaining habitat of the Asiatic lion.

In The Himalayas

 Ladakh’s freezing high altitudes are a home to yak, the shaggy horned wild ox weighing

around one tonne, the Tibetan antelope, the bharal (blue sheep), wild sheep, and the kiang
(Tibetan wild ass).