Kaziranga National Park, being the largest asylum of the one-horned
Indian rhinocerous, is definitely one of the most famous among Indian
National Parks. The Sanctuary provides a unique setting for the sight of
it's best known resident. Along with other wildlives, including birds.
The park became a game sanctuary in 1926, and by 1966 the rhino numbers
had risen to about 400. Though they are still threatened by poachers and
floods, the population of these great beasts is now touching 1500. The
park has other animals like the, gaur (indian bison), deer, elephant,
tiger, bear and water bird species which bread here. Rhinocerous
Unicornis, of Assam remains the last citadel of the one-horned great
Indian rhinocerous (an animal that Marco Polko thought was the
mythological Unicorn). Once widely distributed across the Northern
floodplains of the sub-continent the rhino has been hunted and displaced
by humans and is now restricted to only a handful of wildlife reserves.
In India the greatest number are found in Kaziranga National Park.
Attracting less attention than the tiger, it's numbers are few - barely
1500. The majority crowding just one area. Large and formidable, the
rhino has no natural predators. The sole exception being armed men. Who
coupled with the rhino's slow growth rate makes it pretty difficult for
the animal to resist extinction. The rhino's preferred habitat
coinciding with human habitation, political turmoil providing cover for
the poachers, and ever present market for rhino products make things a
little tougher for this tough-as-a-tank beast.
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