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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 ...
The home range of brow-antlered deer in the park is confined to 15–20 km 2 (5.8–7.7 sq mi) in the southwestern part of the lake where phumdis on which the deer thrive are abundant. A study conducted on the proportion, on the basis of body weight of stag , hind and fawn , is reported to be 4:2:1.
Thinning of the phumdi in the Keibul Lamjao area has affected the habitat of the sangai, and other aquafauna, avifauna and flora are on the decline; the 35 species (5 mammals, 3 birds, 9 reptiles, 3 amphibians, 12 fishes, 2 molluscs and 1 annelid) are reported to be disappearing gradually. [6] Infestation of Loktak Lake by water hyacinth
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 ...
Sangai refers to: Sangai , a deer species found only in Keibul Lamjao National Park, the world's only floating national park in the Loktak lake of Manipur Sangai Festival , an annual cultural fair organised in honour of Sangai deer
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).
The IUCN — International Union for Conservation of Nature. International environmental and conservation organization — focus on environmental conservation . The main article for this category is International Union for Conservation of Nature .
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]