Mammal

Nilgai

Boselaphus tragocamelus

A nilgai walking past a stone wall in dry scrub

Image: Surabhi Srivastava · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 · Near Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 15 March 2022 · Resized

What the sources say

  • JaipurThe most frequently photographed mammal in Jhalana Reserve Forest, Jaipur: 27.3% of photos in the first year and 15.7% in the second.[11]
  • RajasthanAround Sariska Tiger Reserve, villagers blamed nilgai and wild boar for at least half the damage to major crops. This comes from the study's abstract.[18]

Placed here because people meet nilgai on city edges and farmland.

Sources

  1. Kumbhojkar S, Mahabal A, Rakholia S, Yosef R (2024). Avian and Mammalian Diversity and Abundance in Jhalana Reserve Forest, Jaipur, India. Animals 14(20): 2939 (journal). Peer reviewed camera-trap study, 2017 to 2019, inside Jaipur.
  2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  3. Crop and livestock depredation caused by wild animals in protected areas: the case of Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. Environmental Conservation (journal). Peer reviewed. Only the abstract was available.

The coloured tag before each fact shows where it was verified. A fact checked for India or the world is not assumed to hold for Rajasthan.