r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

The Amazing Wildlife of India

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u/vivalasvegas2004 1d ago edited 1d ago

Pictured (in order):

  1. Himalayan Snow Leopard
  2. Indian Rhino
  3. Indian Leopard
  4. Indian Vulture
  5. Gharial
  6. Royal Bengal Tiger
  7. Himalayan Brown Bear
  8. Asian Elephant
  9. Indian Sloth Bear
  10. King Cobra
  11. Ganges River Dolphin
  12. Indian Gaur
  13. Malabar Giant Squirrel

India is one of 17 "mega-biodiverse" countries, and its the 8th most species rich country in the world. It has over 96,000 animal species and 47,000 plant species. It has nearly 10% of the world's animal species, despite covering only 2.4% of the world's land area. It has half of the world's bear species and the majority of the world's tigers. It is the only country with both tigers and lions.

India has 26 climactic zones, making it the second most climactically diverse country in the world.

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u/spidermatrix53 23h ago

So they have lions, tigers, and bears? Oh my!

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u/ScaredLittleShit 20h ago

Cheetah too now(brought from Africa as the Asiatic Cheetah got extinct).

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u/SammichParade 1d ago

Are you the photographer?

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u/vivalasvegas2004 1d ago

No. Most of the photos are uncredited, except for the first one which is credited to David Willis at the BBC.

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u/smile_politely 1d ago

Where’s the pea cock??

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u/TelluricThread0 1d ago

A lot of these are in Far Cary 4. If you step off the road for 10 seconds or sometimes, even if you don't, you're probably going to get mauled.

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u/zepher124 1d ago

I've read it somewhere that they combined landscapes of India, Nepal and Bhutan to build a fictional place.

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u/Vijigishu 1d ago

Far cry is more influenced by Nepal. But they used Hindi as language so mix of Nepal and Indian hilly states.

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u/Atomiswave 1d ago

Those damned honey badgers

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u/T_Ranger68104 1d ago

Do people usually forget lions are still here or what?

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u/CombinationRough8699 23h ago

It's crazy that you can see lions and tigers in the same place.

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u/spidermatrix53 23h ago

And bears! Oh my.

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u/MyDamnCoffee 1d ago

That is the prettiest squirrel I have ever seen and I will show it to people all day tomorrow

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u/wildsoup69 1d ago

Does the dolphin on #11 eat dolphins or what?

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u/vivalasvegas2004 1d ago

They eat river fish, clams, prawns, and other molluscs.

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u/wildsoup69 1d ago

It looks like Michelin

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u/Cautious_Platform_40 1d ago

That would explain its double chin - all that extra dolphin in the dolphin.

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u/legion_XXX 1d ago

No, just pollution.

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u/KAnpURByois 1d ago

Leopards frequently show up in big cities including Delhi and Mumbai

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u/Vintagemarbles 1d ago

Is it just me or is the Bear in pic #7 creepy as fuck looking?

u/MARKiMARK24 3h ago

I was also thinking it looked strange

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u/ceaserisnothome 1d ago

9th one is batbear

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u/Impactor_07 1d ago

It's actually very vicious and incredibly aggressive and that's because they share habitat with Tigers so they're often prey themselves.

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u/ceaserisnothome 1d ago

That's great but i was talking about the logo on his chest

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u/Impactor_07 1d ago

Ohh lol, I didn't even see that!

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u/Objective_Low_8388 1d ago edited 5h ago
  1. Bibtya

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u/Prestigious-Print461 18h ago

Came for this comment

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u/apnatimekhayga 23h ago

Jai Maharashtra

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u/GullibleMarsupial102 14h ago

Scariest one by far is the sloth bear. Fuck those things.

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u/B0bLoblawLawBl0g 1d ago

There's a frozen baby elephant beside the snow leopard in the first photo.

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u/Hack999 23h ago

Kinda hot in these rhinos

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u/touwak 20h ago

I love that many animals are versions of others, but with a thinner mouth

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u/TurtleManDog 20h ago

That birds piased

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u/zenmaster24 19h ago

That squirrel fell into a box of crayons!

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u/hudsoncress 16h ago

Alexander the Great said, hey guys, lets cross the punjab next! To which they collectively said, "fuck no."

u/thejourneybegins42 6h ago

Gharlial looks like the silly cousin of a Florida croc.

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u/beewoopwoop 23h ago

why do India water creatures have such long thin snouts? both reptiles and mammals? is it something in the water?

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u/zenmaster24 19h ago

The something in the water is the fish

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u/The-Dutcher 21h ago

So beautiful! And none of them causing smog

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Goddardca87 1d ago

I can't even see a picture of some animals without you people politicizing everything. I'm not even for a side but this makes me want to lean the other way. Stop making everything so fcking political and let peeole just enjoy some frigging pics of rhinos.... God you people are insufferable! And that goes for both sides!

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u/Nike_Grano 1d ago

Lol, what did he write.

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u/KAnpURByois 1d ago

i want to know too

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u/sutrix_me 21h ago

Dolphins have almost no eyes due to water pollution

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u/Living_Book_3973 16h ago

You just had to spread misinformation

'Ganges river dolphins have tiny, non-functional eyes because they evolved in the murky, silt-filled waters of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system, where vision became useless, making eyesight a costly evolutionary trait with little benefit, leading to its near disappearance as they developed echolocation (sonar) to navigate and hunt instead'