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Barasingha

More about Barasingha

In all sanctuaries poaching is difficult to eliminate completely and it is also something that has a much more harmful potency when the population of a species is already much reduced by hunting or other causes.

Cervus duvauceli should not be called Barasingha

There are two subspecies of the swamp deer, one inhabiting swampy ground and marshes in the Terai, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and the Sunderbans, which has somewhat spongy and splayed hooves and a comparatively larger skull.