Kanha National Park is famous for

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Correct — D, tigers. Kanha National Park, in the Maikal hills of Madhya Pradesh, is one of India's best-known tiger habitats and a Project Tiger reserve, celebrated for its Royal Bengal tigers roaming its sal forests and grassy meadows. Its landscape is popularly associated with Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book', though Kipling's 'Seeonee' setting points to the Seoni/Pench area.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) India's Asiatic lions survive only in the Gir forest of Gujarat, not in Kanha.  (b) A cow is domestic livestock, not the wildlife a national park is set up to protect.  (c) Kanha is not an elephant park; wild elephants in India are concentrated in the north-east, the Western Ghats and forests like those around Corbett/Bandipur, not central Madhya Pradesh.

Concept: Kanha is a tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh — a state so rich in tigers it is often called the 'Tiger State' of India. Beyond tigers, Kanha is the last stronghold of the hard-ground Barasingha (swamp deer), the state animal of Madhya Pradesh, which was saved from near-extinction there. Matching a park to its flagship species (Gir–lion, Kaziranga–rhino, Kanha–tiger) is a staple exam skill.

State PCS 2018 Q34 — Environment & Ecology PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2018 Q34 — Environment & Ecology PYQ with Answer