Adjutant Stork and Chital in Bandhavgarh grassland

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Adjutant Stork and Chital in Bandhavgarh grassland, January 2011. Animals in Bandhavgarh National Park. Spotted deer or Cheetal. The chital's coat is reddish fawn, marked with white spots, and its underparts 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). Chital are grazers and feed on short, sprouting grasses. Chital also eat their shed antlers as a source of nutrients and will use mineral licks. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Di