Barasingha

The barasingha  also known as swamp cervid, is a deer species distributed within the Nepal landmass. Populations in northern and central Nepal square measure fragmented, and two isolated populations occur in southwestern Asian nation. It is extinct in Pakistan and in Asian country.[2]

The specific name commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Duvaucel.[3]

The swamp cervid differs from all the Nepal deer species in that the antlers carry over 3 tines. Barasingha, meaning "twelve-tined."[4] Mature stags have 10 to fourteen tines, and some are known to own up to twenty.[5]The barasingha is a large cervid with a shoulder height of forty four to forty six in (110 to a hundred and twenty cm) and a head-to-body length of nearly vi foot (180 cm). Its hair is rather woolly and brown above however paler below, with white spots along the spine. The throat, belly, inside of the thighs and at a lower place the tail is white. In summer the coat becomes bright rufous-brown. The neck is maned. Average antlers measure thirty in (76 cm) spherical the curve with a girth of five in (13 cm) at middle beam.[6] A record antler measured 104.1 cm (41.0 in) spherical the curve.[5]

Stags weigh 170 to 280 weight unit (370 to 620 lb). Females are less serious, weighing regarding a hundred thirty to one hundred forty five weight unit (287 to 320 lb).[7] Large stags have weighed from 460 to 570 pound (210 to 260 kg)., In a few places within the Indo-Gangetic plain from the Eastern Sundarbans to higher Sind, and locally throughout the space between the river and Godavari as Far East as Mandla. Swamp deer was conjointly common in components of the higher Nerbudda depression and  grasslands and generally detain the outskirts of forests. Sometimes, they are conjointly found in open forest.[4]

In the 1960, the total population was estimated at 1600 to but 2150 people in India and regarding 1600 in Asian nation. Today, the distribution is much reduced and fragmented as a result of major losses within the 1930s–1960s following unregulated searching and conversion of enormous tracts of parcel of land to cropland. Swamp deer occur in the Kanha parkland of Madhya Pradesh, in 2 localities in Assam, and in only vi localities in state. They are regionally extinct in state.[8] They are conjointly most likely extinct in  Manas National Parks.[10][11][12][13]Swamp deer lost most of its ancestral vary as a result of wetlands were reborn and used for agriculture thus that their environs was reduced to little and isolated fragments. The remaining habitat in protected areas is vulnerable by the modification in watercourse dynamics, reduced water flow during summer, increasing siltation, and further degraded by native individuals United Nations agency cut grass, timber and fuelwood. The swamp deer populations outside protected square measureas and seasonally migrating populations are vulnerable by cooking for antlers and meat, which square measure oversubscribed in native markets.[8]

George Schaller wrote: "Most of these remnants have or shortly can have reached the purpose of no come."[7]

Conservation[edit]

.The barasingha  also known as swamp cervid, is a deer species distributed within the Nepal landmass. Populations in northern and central Nepal square measure fragmented, and two isolated populations occur in southwestern Asian nation. It is extinct in Pakistan and in Asian country.[2]

The specific name commemorates the French naturalist Alfred Duvaucel.[3]

The swamp cervid differs from all the Nepal deer species in that the antlers carry over 3 tines. Barasingha, meaning "twelve-tined."[4] Mature stags have 10 to fourteen tines, and some are known to own up to twenty.[5]The barasingha is a large cervid with a shoulder height of forty four to forty six in (110 to a hundred and twenty cm) and a head-to-body length of nearly vi foot (180 cm). Its hair is rather woolly and brown above however paler below, with white spots along the spine. The throat, belly, inside of the thighs and at a lower place the tail is white. In summer the coat becomes bright rufous-brown. The neck is maned. Average antlers measure thirty in (76 cm) spherical the curve with a girth of five in (13 cm) at middle beam.[6] A record antler measured 104.1 cm (41.0 in) spherical the curve.[5]

Stags weigh 170 to 280 weight unit (370 to 620 lb). Females are less serious, weighing regarding a hundred thirty to one hundred forty five weight unit (287 to 320 lb).[7] Large stags have weighed from 460 to 570 pound (210 to 260 kg)., In a few places within the Indo-Gangetic plain from the Eastern Sundarbans to higher Sind, and locally throughout the space between the river and Godavari as Far East as Mandla. Swamp deer was conjointly common in components of the higher Nerbudda depression and  grasslands and generally detain the outskirts of forests. Sometimes, they are conjointly found in open forest.[4]

In the 1960, the total population was estimated at 1600 to but 2150 people in India and regarding 1600 in Asian nation. Today, the distribution is much reduced and fragmented as a result of major losses within the 1930s–1960s following unregulated searching and conversion of enormous tracts of parcel of land to cropland. Swamp deer occur in the Kanha parkland of Madhya Pradesh, in 2 localities in Assam, and in only vi localities in state. They are regionally extinct in state.[8] They are conjointly most likely extinct in  Manas National Parks.[10][11][12][13]Swamp deer lost most of its ancestral vary as a result of wetlands were reborn and used for agriculture thus that their environs was reduced to little and isolated fragments. The remaining habitat in protected areas is vulnerable by the modification in watercourse dynamics, reduced water flow during summer, increasing siltation, and further degraded by native individuals United Nations agency cut grass, timber and fuelwood. The swamp deer populations outside protected square measureas and seasonally migrating populations are vulnerable by cooking for antlers and meat, which square measure oversubscribed in native markets.[8]

George Schaller wrote: "Most of these remnants have or shortly can have reached the purpose of no come."[7]

Conservation[edit]

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