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TOPIC:ANIMALS AND PLANTS IN
I.I.T
 OBJECTIVE OF THIS
POWERPOINT
• In these pages we present to you a glimpse of the
natural heritage of the IIT Madras campus in the form of
its varied flora and fauna. The objectives of this
PowerPoint information about wildlife and environment
among the campus residents. The IIT Madras campus
was carved out of a natural forest that formed part of the
Guindy National Park. The Guindy National Park and IIT
Campus come under Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest type
- the least common vegetation type seen in India. The
campus can be considered as an ideal example for the
co-existence various types of mini - ecosystems. These
are : (1) open grasslands (2) wetlands (3)
thick forest patches and (4) patches of scrub jungle
 ABOUT ANIMALS
• CHEETAL(Spotted Deer)
• It is the most common deer
species in Indian forests. Its
coat is reddish fawn, marked
with white spots, and its under
parts are white. Its antlers,
which it sheds annually, are
usually three-pronged and
curve in a lyre shape and may
extend to 75 cm (2.5 ft). It
stands about 90 cm (3 ft) tall at
the shoulder and masses
about 85 kg (187 lb). Its
lifespan is around 20–30
years.
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MONITER LIZARD
Monitor lizards, also known
as biawak or goannas, They
have a more distinctive upper
set of teeth to intimidate their
predators when in danger
some can be as small as 12
centimeters in length. They
have long necks, powerful tails
and claws, and well-developed
limbs. Most species are
terrestrial, but arboreal and
semi-aquatic monitors are also
known. Almost all monitor
lizards are carnivorous,
although They are oviparous,
laying from 7 to 37 eggs
 ANIMALIA
• BLACK NAPED
HARE
• The Indian Hare
(Lepus nigricollis),
also known as the
Black-naped Hare, is
a common species of
hare found in
South Asia
 ANIMALIA
• MONKEYS
• A monkey is any cercopithecoid (
Old World monkey) or platyrrhine (
New World monkey) primate. All
primates that are not prosimians or
apes are monkeys. The 264 known
extant monkey species represent two
of the three groupings of simian
primates (the third group being the 22
species of apes). Monkeys are
generally considered to be intelligent
and, unlike apes, monkeys usually
have tails. Monkeys range in size from
the Pygmy Marmoset, at 140 to 160
millimetres (5–6 in) long (plus tail) and
120 to 140 grams (4–5 oz) in weight,
to the male Mandrill, almost 1 metre
(3.3 ft) long and weighing 35 kilograms
(77 lb)
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• MONGOOSE
• Mongooses (Herpestidae) are a family
of 33 species of small carnivorans
from southern Eurasia and mainland
Africa. Four additional species from
Madagascar in the subfamily
Galidiinae, which were previously
classified in this family, are also
frequently referred to as "mongooses".
Genetic evidence indicates that the
Galidiinae are more closely related to
other Madagascar carnivorans in the
family Eupleridae, which is the closest
living group to mongooses. There are
more than thirty species, ranging from
1–4 feet (0.30–1.2 m) in length.
Mongoose range in weight from the
squirrel-sized
Common Dwarf Mongoose, at 280 g
(9.9 oz), to the cat-sized
White-tailed Mongoose, at 4 kg (8.8
lb).
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• BLACK BUCK
• Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra),
Krishna Mrigam is a species of
antelope found mainly in India, and
also in some parts of southern Nepal,
and Pakistan, though it has also been
introduced in Texas and Argentina. It
is one of the fastest of all
terrestrial animals reaching to speeds
of up to 80 km/h and is one of the few
antelopes where males and females
have distinctive coloration, as the male
bucks are a distinctive black and white
and have long twisted horns, while
females are fawn coloured with no
horns [2]. In its scientific name
Antilope cervicapra, 'Antilope' from
'anthalops' (Greek) a horned animal;
'cervicapra' from 'cervus' (Latin) a deer
and 'capra' (Latin) a she-goat [3]
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• WILD CATS
• The wildcat (Felis silvestris) is a
small cat (Felinae) native to
Europe, the western part of Asia,
and Africa. It is a hunter of small
mammals, birds, and other
creatures of a similar or smaller
size. There are several
subspecies distributed in different
regions of the world. Sometimes
included is the ubiquitous
domestic cat (Felis silvestris
catus), which has been introduced
to every habitable continent and
most of the world's larger islands,
and has become feral in many of
those environments.
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• BATS
• A bat is a flying
mammal in the
Chiroptera order.
They are also known
as flying foxes.
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• SNAKES
• Snakes are elongate, legless,
carnivorous reptiles of the
suborder Serpentes that can
be distinguished from
legless lizards by their lack of
eyelids and external ears. Like
all squamates, snakes are
ectothermic, amniote
vertebrates covered in
overlapping scales. Many
species of snakes have skulls
with many more joints than
their lizard ancestors, enabling
them to swallow prey much
larger than their heads with
their highly mobile jaws
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• STARRED TORTOISE
• A star-burst pattern covering each
scute mimics light and shadow
and gives this tortoise its name.
From a yellow spot in the center of
the scute, six to twelve yellow
lines radiate to the scute's margin.
And when the star tortoise rests in
tall grass or areas of dappled light,
it almost disappears. Relatively
small animals, adult star tortoises
usually reach no more than 5-6
inches across, though females can
reach 15 inches. They are
predominantly herbivorous feeding
on grasses, fallen fruit, flowers
and leaves of succulent plants.
They will occasionally eat carrion