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village · livestock

While everyone else burst crackers and distributed sweets to celebrate Deepavali, the villagers of Gomatapura on Tamil Nadu and Karnataka border collected cow dung for a couple of days only to throw at each other.

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Goat runs after stealing food from a boy. The food is wrapped in aluminium foil. Goat opens foil from her mouth and eats the food and boy runs after her to teach her a lesson.

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Two Indian bovines lock horns and fight it out the old Indian way in the open and in the mud.

village · livestock

Much less pollution by celebrating Diwali this way! While everyone else burst crackers and distributed sweets to celebrate Deepavali, the villagers of Gomatapura on Tamil Nadu and Karnataka border collected cow dung for a couple of days onl…

livestock · festival

Much less pollution by celebrating Diwali this way! While everyone else burst crackers and distributed sweets to celebrate Deepavali, the villagers of Gomatapura on Tamil Nadu and Karnataka border collected cow dung for a couple of days onl…

livestock · village

In Betul, people believe that smearing their kids in cow dung can help them lead a healthy life free from ailments. This unusual tradition takes place in a village in Betul district in Madhya Pradesh.

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An Indian woman begs using a five legged cow as her usp or marketing tool. The cow has an extra limb attached to her back. She conveniently uses a hump on the cow's back to store her coins and exhort passersby to add to her modest horde.

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Viewer Sankaran tells us: "All appear to be draft (work) animals. A najority of the breeds appear to be Hallikar or Killari originating in Karnataka Maharashtra. I assume the location to be somewhere in North Karnataka."

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Have You Ever Seen A Goat Eating Fish? An unusual or stranger thing you have never seen or come across. A goat eating fish captured on camera.

Uttarakhand·festival · livestock

Bistorta and other beautiful Himalayan summer alpine flowers, en route Roopkund Lake in Uttarakhand state of India. Pilgrims trudge up the steep rocky edges of the meadows, to head into the higher altitude and buggyals towards Rupkund.

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Hyena in Rajasthan - it face's disappears into a buffalo's hide as it digs in for a hearty meal, bothered by dogs nearby but otherwise enjoying its fare!

hills · livestock

The Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) is a large ungulate of the Himalaya. The Himalayan tahr is a relative of the wild goat and is specially adapted to life on the rugged mountain slopes of the Himalayas, extending from the montane to…

forest · livestock

Nilgai is really an antelope and not a cow, but enjoys protection in India nonetheless. The nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus), sometimes called nilgau, is the largest Asian antelope.

Jodhpur, Rajasthan·livestock · farmland

Nilgai or blue bull feed on dry summer grasses around Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Nilgai is the largest common antelope found in open scrub forest in and around wild life sanctuaries, and causes crop damage throughout India.

livestock · desert

Mesquite, Prosopis juliflora or Vilayati Keekar seems to have taken over this edge-of-desert habitat in Rajasthan, like in many other parts of India.

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Herd of Blackbuck forages on dry grass in forest of Rajasthan. The blackbuck, also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in Pakistan, India and Nepal. The blackbuck is the sole extant member of the genus Antilope.

livestock · hills

This perfectly camouflaged wild goat of the Himalaya is also fleet-footed, making it virtually impossible to hunt, for a leopard or other predator (without a gun, that is!) when it is on its cliffy habitat...

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The nilgai is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and Hindus accord it the same sacred status as cattle (both belong to the subfamily Bovinae). Nilgai is really an antelope and not a cow, but enjoys protection in India nonetheless.

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This blue-coloured antelope is called a nilgai or rojh in India. Nilgai, (Boselaphus tragocamelus), also called bluebuck, the largest Asian antelope (family Bovidae).

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In a dried out pond area, a pair of make Cheetal (Axis axis) disinterestedly spar with each other, to prepare for the breeding season ahead, and the inevitable fight for herd dominance.

Assam·livestock

An Indian Pied Hornbill feeds its chicks, regurgitating Ficus berries it has recently gorged on, to bring back home to its nest-hole bound chicks.

Assam·livestock · wildlife

Elephant herd wading through water in Kaziranga National Park, Assam. One can clearly see how deep they have waded as there is a distinct line of wetness on their bodies.