India GOAnimals in Hyderabad
Indian grey mongoose
The mongoose-and-cobra fight of Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is real behaviour, though mongooses eat far more insects and eggs than snakes.
Urva edwardsii
Chital (spotted deer)
Harina means deer, and the chital here outnumber even the blackbuck the park is known for: the count the curator gave in 2015 listed 1,164 chital against 872 blackbuck.
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Bengal monitor lizard
The goh appears in Maratha fort legend as the animal whose grip on a wall let climbers scale it; the story is folklore, but the lizard's claws really do hold rock.
Varanus bengalensis
Indian cobra
Hyderabad's volunteer Friends of Snakes Society rescued 13,028 snakes in 2024 alone, and the spectacled cobra is the snake it rescues most often, nearly half of all its rescues.
Naja naja
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