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Manas National Park
While Kaziranga is known for the Rhinoceros, Manas National Park
is famous for the Majestic Tigers. This park is the only Project Tiger
in Assam. The Manas Reserve, located in the foothills of the Bhutan
hills, far from human habitation, is a world in itself.
The Manas River flowing through the Park demarcates the border between
India and Bhutan.
The Park has vast deciduous forests where the dense cover often cuts
out the light. Its wet grasslands are the home of the rhino, water
buffalo, elephant and tiger. Manas is noted for its population of the
rare golden langur - found only in this part of the country. They are
often spotted in the tall trees. Other primates in the Park include the
capped langur, Assamese macaque, the slow loris and the hoolock gibbon.
These are rarely seen but the whooping call of the hoolock gibbon can
be heard resounding through the forest. The Reserve is also home to the
attractive red panda but these are only seen occasionally in the higher
elevations.
Manas has a very special biosphere, for it harbours twenty species of
birds and animals that are highly endangered and listed in the IUCN Red
Data Book. These include the hispid hare and the pigmy hog. The lush
forest canopy at Manshelters colourful birds - the giant hornbills,
both pied and gray varieties, pheasants, jungle fowl and scarlet
minivet being among them. The water-birds along the rivers include
brahminy ducks, mergansers and a range of egrets, herons and pelican
Over 2840 sq. km. in area, Manas is, a fascinating tiger reserve.
The area of Manas has roughly 45% grassland and 55% tree land as
wildlife habitat. The river course may have about 100 sq.km. of
reparian forests of grass and primary succession of tree cover, which
is probably the most suitable water buffalo habitat any where and
providing by far the best habitat for the tiger, where the
concentration of the species is the highest. Inter and inter specific
relation of the prey and predator in this area is extremely interesting
and awaits scientific study to understand population dynamics and other
evolutionary processes at work. In this area the ever changing river
course cause erosion and accretion at the same time providing
extraordinary dynamism to the habitat/ecosystems sustaining very high
productivity. The rain fall in this area is very high about 450 to 500
cm and the temperature is also very conducive to add to the
productivity.
General lnformation
Best time to visit :
Nov.-April
Accommodation :
Tourist Lodge and Forest Rest Houses.
Nearest Town :
Barpeta Road (40 km)
How to get there :
Rail-Barpeta Road (40 km) Air-Guwahati (186 km)
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