Viaan Jain Photography
Specializing in wildlife photography
India's Mammals
The Indian subcontinent features a wide range of mammal species ranging across Assam's floodplains to the mountainous landscape of Kashimir. Some of the most endangered and revered three species in the country can be effectively identified as the Bengal Tiger, the One- Horned Rhino, and the Asiatic elephant, and others.
One- Horned Rhino
A species listed as Vulnerable by IUCN, only around 4,000 One- horned rhinos are left in the wild, out of which around 90% are in Kaziranga national park.
Asiatic Elephants
These huge creatures are endangered according to the IUCN conservation status. Known for being the largest animals in the world, elephants have two major subspecies, of which Asiatic elephants are the slightly smaller ones. They are found in 13 countries across South and Southeast Asia, including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Bengal Tiger
A subspecies of the tiger, which is the largest big cat on the Earth, Bengal Tigers are native to several countries including India and some of it's neighboring nations.
Indian Wild Water Buffalo
An endangered species, with less than 4,000 individuals remaining in the wild, these powerful animals are mostly found in India.
Hog Deer
Hog deer are listed as endangered by IUCN and are rapidly disappearing from many parks in India due to habitat loss of wet grasslands and dense forest that they prefer.
Western Hoolock Gibbon
This is a rare and elusive endangered monkey mainly found in Northeast India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.
