Posts Tagged ‘Kaziranga National Park’
If you’re an Indian Elephant in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, you get to spend a fair bit of your time eating and throwing mud on yourself! It was late in the day when I observed this individual, and others, and managed to get a few pictures of her as she emerged from the high [...]
Late afternoon in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, when we observed a single horned rhinoceros with her calf contently grazing, with the occasional Indian myna bird either perched on her back or picking around her feet as she moved about. Look closely at the calf and you’ll see it’s got only one ear. At first I thought maybe it [...]
From my journey through Assam state, India back in April. Late afternoon and a storm was brewing over Kaziranga National Park. The wet season had started early, fortunately the days were fine, but at night the rain was torrential with some of the most active electrical storm activity I’ve personally witnessed. As the day came to an [...]
Been a while since we’ve tested the aw shucks value of wildlife photographs so today’s the day. Today’s image was taken in the Kaziranga National Park in India and shows Indian Elephants, a mother with its baby. The Indian Elephant, more correctly known as the Asiatic Elephant (Elephas maximus), is slightly smaller than the African Elephant and has [...]
During my travels through Assam, India, I had several opportunities to observe rhinoceros. The single horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) also known variously as the Nepali Rhinoceros, Indian Rhinoceros, Great One-horned Rhinoceros or Asian One-horned Rhinoceros, is found in greater numbers in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam than anywhere else. Historically, the species range extended right across northern [...]