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Indira Gandhi National Park, Tamil Nadu
Named after the erstwhile Indian Prime Minister the Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu is a treasure house of flora and fauna. The Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu remains functional all through the year; however, you can derive maximum pleasure out of the National park chiefly during the months between October and March. The Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu is a significant section of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and is situated in the Anamalai Hills. In fact, the Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu was formerly called the Anamalai Wildlife Sanctuary. The Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu offers its visitors several facilities and attractions; among them are mini safaris, trekking and elephant rides.
The Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu sprawls across a land area of some 108 Sq Km and stands at an elevation of 350 to 2,400 meters above the sea level. The forest of the Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu is mostly evergreen rain forest and has some 8,000 plant species within its premises. Among them are teak, combretum ovalifolium, rosewood, dispyros nilagrica, orchid, impaliens elegans, ranunculus reniformis and osmundra regulis. The animals in the Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu includes such species as elephant, civet cat, tiger, pangolin, panther, porcupine, wild boar, Nilgiri Tahr, sloth bear, spotted deer, sambhar, mouse deer, langur, barking deer and Malabar giant squirrel. The Indira Gandhi National Park in Tamil Nadu also houses some avian species like whistling thrush, paradise fly-catcher, black-headed oriole, rufus wood pecker, racquet tailed drongo, Malabar pied hornbill and black eagle.
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