10 Lines on ‘National Animal of India’
- Lord of the Indian Jungles, is the National Animal of India.
- The tiger is the symbol of India’s wealth of wildlife.
- The magnificent tiger, Panthera tigris (Linnaeus), is a striped animal.
- It has a thick yellow coat of fur with dark stripes.
- The combination of grace, strength, agility and enormous power has earned the tiger its pride of place as the national animal of India.
- Out of eight races of the species known, the Indian race, the Royal Bengal Tiger, is found throughout the country except in the north-western region and also in the neighbouring countries, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
- Tigers are now getting extinct.
- The Government of India, under its Project Tiger programme, started a massive effort to preserve the tiger population in 1973.
- Today, the tiger advances as a symbol of India’s conservation of itself its wildlife heritage.
- The tiger is proudly recognised as India’s national animal thanks to its impressive blend of grace, strength, agility, and power.
