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Gir Wildlife Sanctuary

Gir Wildlife Sanctuary or Gir Forest National Park is famous for being the home to the Asiatic Lions. Located in Junagadh, Gujarat the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the most popular wildlife destinations in India. The Gir Wildlife Sanctuary covers a huge area of 116 square miles featuring rich varieties of flora and fauna.

Major wildlife found in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary:

The rare species that are found in this national park are Chowsingha, leopards apart from the Asiatic lions. With a total of 2, 375 wild species the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary offers you to find the fauna in their own habitat. More than 2, 000 insects are included in the species: while you can discover 37 species of reptiles and about 300 types of birds in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary. You can also explore about 38 types of mammals in their different movements in the sanctuary.

Carnivores group in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary:

If you want to know about the carnivores group you will find the dominant presence of the Asiatic lions, Leopards, rusty- spotted cats, desert cats, ratels, civet cats, mongoose, jackals, hyenas and jungle cat in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary.

Herbivores in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary:

The major herbivores group of animals in the Gir Forest National Park of Gujarat are wild boar, chinkara, four- horned antellope, sambar, nilgai and chital. If you are lucky enough you can have a sight of the blackbucks in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary.

About the mammals in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary:

You can catch the pangolins in their own mood if luck offers you to see them: while hare and porcupine are always to be seen in the national forest park. Be careful while roaming around the stream banks as pythons are often seemed there. You can also see different types of snakes while trailing through the forest: while monitor lizard and the Indian Star tortoise are found in the marshy regions of the sanctuary.

Flora in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary:

Varieties of deciduous tress like banyan, acacia and teak cover a large part of the forest. Vegetation at the park is offered by the trees like amli, sirus, charal, kalam, vad, umro, karanj and jambu.

Ways to reach the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary:

If you prefer air travel you can opt for the regular flights to keshod from Mumbai: while through meter gauge rail from Ahmedabad you can get to your destination.

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