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Pench – Land of the Jungle Book and Mougli
Pench National Park is named after the Pench river in the Seoni district of Madhya pradesh.
It is the panoramic beauty of this region that has been described as early as the beginning of the 20th century by naturalists like Captain J. Forsyth in 'Highlands of Central India' and by Rudyard Kipling in the 'Jungle Book'.
The Pench Tiger Reserve and its neighborhood is the original setting of Rudyard Kipling's most famous work
Kipling borrowed heavily from Robert Armitage Strendale's books 'Seonee', 'Mammalia of India and Ceylon' and 'Denizens of the Jungle' for the topography, wildlife, and its ways. Mowgli was inspired by Sir William Henry Sleeman's pamphlet, 'An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens' which describes a wolf-boy captured in Seoni district near the village of Sant Baori in 1831. Many of The Jungle Book's locations are actual locations in Seoni District, like the Waingunga river with its gorge where Sherkhan was killed, Kanhiwara villlage and the 'Seeonee hills'.

The tiger, leopard and dhole (Indian Wild Dogs) are the predators who claim fiefdom in Pench. The sloth bear and the leopard cat coexist with the four-horned antelope and mouse deer. Spotted deer, sambar, barking deer, nilgai and wild pigs may also be encountered.

Wild - Water Buffalo – Kaziranga National Park
The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), also called Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo and Wild Asian Buffalo, is a large bovine native to the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They are ancestors to the domestic buffalo. It has been listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List since 1986, as the remaining population totals less than 4,000 ( Global) of which 3,400 lives in India.

Periyar National Park:
The Periyar reservoir is the dominating feature of Periyar Tiger Reserve.
The Periyar river originating from the evergreen forest merges in the reservoir catchment area before proceeding to meet the Arabian sea 250 km onwards. Rolling green hills, tropical evergreen forest patches interspersed with grasslands and marshy flatlands .
Periyar is a tiger reserve and prime elephant country and large herds are commonly sighted near the lake shore foraging or playing in the water. Gaur or wild buffalo can be seen grazing along the hillsides during treks and one may also encounter playful Malabar squirrels here.
Periyar is also home to four primates species; two of these are endangered:– the Lion-tailed Macaque and the Bonnet Macaque.
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