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recognition in the
world when UNESCO included this area on the list of World
Heritage Site in 1984. Here one can see wild life such as the
swamp deer, musk deer, black buck, blue bull, and the Royal
Bengal tiger, Gharial and mugger crocodiles, and the last of a
breed of Asiatic wild buffalo. This area is also rich in
birdlife with verity of babblers and orioles, Koles and drongos
, peacocks and floricans, and a multitude of wintering wildfowl.
Once one if the most famous big game hunting areas in Asia ,
Chitwan National park now offers protection to a large array of
mammals such as the one- horned rhinoceros, tiger , leopard,
sloth bear and the gaur ( wild bison ) as well as more then 400
species of birds.
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