The tiger is India's national animal and the largest living cat species native to Asia.
Indian palm squirrels are found in India and Sri Lanka. They mostly live in tropical dry forests, rainforests, mangrove forests and grasslands.
Known as scavengers of the forests, hyenas are facing local extinction across India, but have managed to thrive in good numbers in the eastern plains of North Karnataka
The buff striped keelback is found in South and Southeast Asia.