Gallery Description
Asian Elephant Male This male is a wild one living free in the jungle.Males are dangerous especially in their musth period.Asian elephant is smaller than the African one.A notable difference is in the ears: the african one has bigger ears helping him to cool in the blazing African sun.
An Egret Bird
Sleeping Crocodile This is a mugger crocodile, one of the prevalent species in Chitwan National Park.Crocodiles use to sleep with their mouth open to cool down during high temperatures.
Out of the Water Mugger crocodiles are apex predators and they hunt for large prey such as fish, turtles, snakes, and sometimes even monkeys, deer and buffalo.
Warming Gharial, a critically endangered species. As it feeds on fish, his teeth are specialized for this type of food.This is a female because it lacks the distinctive boss at the end of the snout.
Up the River
Termite Mound Termites build high mounds whose inner structure serves as a ventilation system.
Jungle Swamp The Chitwan jungle has many swampy regions.
Cannabis Indica Cannabis is a single species which is sometimes divided into two additional species: Cannabis Indica and Cannabis Ruderalis
Herd of Deers The Chitwan National Park houses at least 43 species of mammals.
Sunset over Chitwan In foreground, The East Rapti river.
Jungle Trees
Chitwan Ranger
