Animals of India

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About Animals of India

Photographs of animals and wildlife(fauna) found in India.

If you have pictures of any kind of animals in India, including all kinds of wildlife, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, etc. please feel to join this group and post those pics here. Please do try and comment on the pictures that you view in this pool. Please, NO pets!

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Most Interesting Photos from Animals of India on Flickriver

Related Links:
Wildlife photography tips from Sanctuary Asia Magazine
Take Action!
People for Animals
Project Tiger, GOI, Project Tiger page at Sanctuary mag
An exhaustive collection of birds of Inda and info for birders
Periyar Tiger Reserve
www.indianjungles.com/

Links to articles on wildlife, animals

Last and Final Call
Yes! We can still save the tiger, but will we? Bittu Sahgal and Jennifer Scarlott flag an issue that should be at the top of the agenda of the Indian Prime Minister and every other head of state, indeed the Security Council of the United Nations itself – the survival of the natural world, and, therefore, of Homo sapiens.

Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots; within this mile break forth a thousand springs…
William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene iii
[Read more at Sanctuary Asia magazine]
See also: Project Tiger info at Sanctuary Asia Magazine and Project Tiger official page.

A Happy Ending: Whale Rescued in Mumbai
A rare marine mammal beached itself on the Silver Beach, Andheri, Mumbai at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Read all about this amazing rescue


Animal Quotes
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?" - Aldo Leopold

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Colette

He is closest to God who harms no living creature. - Sriimad Bhagavad Gita

Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath, man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth? - The Holy Bible, ECCLESIASTES 3:19-21

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Gandhi

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail. - Fran Lebowitz

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore in Stray Birds

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you -- alas, it is true of almost every one of us! - Feodor Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov

A Robin Redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
- William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
- William Blake