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This is my dream – this is my nightmare

10,000 Birds

First, rangers would show some animal dung and teach their guests how to identify it (big deal – it is going nowhere, nor hiding away) and then show, let’s say, a herd of antelopes to their left – only to use the time when no one is watching to print some lion spurs in the dust on the right hand side, so they would be nicely fresh for photographing.

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The 300 survivors

10,000 Birds

Once this species inhabited wide steppes of India and Pakistan, but nowadays remain in ever smaller and more isolated habitat fragments. And the animals themselves? When they spot a traffic jam in the savanna, it is easy enough to conclude that some unfortunate animal is being surrounded by telephoto lenses. Males reach 1.2

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

On that first trip, I even saw some of the last 500 (Asiatic) Lions ! Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. I clearly needed a mammal book. It also covers Andaman, Nicobar and Laccadive islands. Highly recommended. cm Weight 0.4

Asia 173