The park is home to wild water buffalos, swampdeers, tigers, elephants, hog badgers, capped langurs,
hoolock gibbons, wild boars, jackals, wild buffalos, pythons, and monitor lizards.
The gibbon (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/11/new-species-of-gibbon-discovered-in-china) was named "the Skywalker
hoolock" after Luke Skywalker, the key protagonist of the original film trilogy of the "Star Wars" saga.
The 480- square- kilometre grassland park is home to the world's largest population of rare, one- horned rhinos as well as other endangered species including swamp deer and the
Hoolock gibbon.
Freida meets a man who has dedicated his life to the
Hoolock gibbon, India's only ape, which starts the morning by singing.
But even the most rugged nature lover with a passion for sighting
Hoolock Gibbons, will find it difficult not to surrender to the luxury of this colonial house with it's vintage fireplaces and four poster beds.
They are amongst the largest and last strongholds of critically endangered
Hoolock Gibbons (
Hoolock hoolock)--one of the last apes in the Indian sub-continent, and Hooded Pitta (Pitta sordida)--a spectacular but rare bird species in the country (Muzaffar et al.
This apart the park also houses nine species of primates including the Assamese Macaque, Lutings, Golden Langur and the only ape found in India, the
Hoolock Gibbon.
(66) Thomas Geissmann, Mark Grindley, Frank Momberg, Ngwe Lwin and Saw Moses, "
Hoolock gibbon and biodiversity survey and training in southern Rakhine Yoma, Myanmar", Gibbon Journal 5 (2009): 7-27.
Other primates in the Park include the capped langur, Assamese macaque, the slow loris and the
hoolock gibbon.
Tomas
Hoolock's own-goal in stoppage time ended their brave challenge.
The Western
Hoolock Gibbon is one of the most threatened primate species in the world and is only found in North-east India and Bangladesh, where their populations are declining and fragmented by loss of the natural forest.