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In the sangai, therefore, humans find a way of expressing their love for the nature. Socially, the sangai is the symbol of a prized possession of the state. It is believed that the name sangai (sa "animal" and ngai "in awaiting") was coined from its peculiar posture and behaviour while running. By nature, the deer, particularly the males, even ...
Eld's deer (Rucervus eldii or Panolia eldii [4]), also known as the thamin or brow-antlered deer, is an Endangered species of deer endemic to South and Southeast Asia. [2] It inhabits wetlands and marshlands. It is active during the day and mates from October to the end of December. Three subspecies are recognised.
India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. [1] All Indian states and some of the union territories have their own elected government and the union territories come under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. India has its own national symbols. [2]
A Sangai deer in the Manipur Zoological Garden. The zoo offers its visitors to have an opportunity to see the graceful Sangai, the brow antlered deer. This deer is one of the rarest and one of the most endangered species in the world. [1] [2] This zoo is located at the foothills of the pine growing hillocks in the westernmost corner of ...
A sangai Manipuri deer which thrives on phumdis. The life-cycle of the phumdis has generally been subject to seasonal variation. During the monsoon season when the water level is high, the phumdis float, but during the dry season, as the water level falls, the phumdis touch the lake bed and absorb nutrients from it.
One species, Père David's deer, is extinct in the wild, and one, Schomburgk's deer, went extinct in 1938. The fifty-five species of Cervidae are split into nineteen genera within two subfamilies : Capreolinae (New World deer) and Cervinae (Old World deer).
Rucervus is a genus of deer from India, Nepal, Indochina, and the Chinese island of Hainan.The only extant representatives, the barasingha or swamp deer (R. duvaucelii) and Eld's deer (R. eldii), are threatened by habitat loss and hunting; another species, Schomburgk’s deer (R. schomburgki), went extinct in 1938. [1]
The park is the last natural refuge of the endangered Sangai (state animal), Rucervus eldii eldii or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), one of three subspecies of Eld's deer. [7] [8] The Loktak Day [page needed] is observed every year on the 15th of October at the periphery of the Loktak lake.