[PDF.77rp] Exotic Aliens: The Lion and the Cheetah in India

Exotic Aliens: The Lion and the Cheetah in India

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 | #3431961 in Books |  2013-04-01 | Original language:English |  8.78 x1.06 x6.10l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Questioning the prevailing wisdom...|By Tom Kogut|"Exotic Aliens" is a fascinating book that makes a strong case (but not an iron-clad one) that lions and cheetahs in India were originally imported from Africa for royal menageries and hunting parks and were never indigenous to the Indian subcontinent as has been generally assumed. If nothing else, the book clearly details the l|About the Author|Valmik Thapar is Indias foremost wildlife conservationist and an internationally renowned natural historian. The author of twenty-three books, he has also presented several documentaries for the BBC, Animal Planet and Discovery, most notably BBC

In the sixteenth century, Dutch traveller Jan Linschoten noted the absence of lions throughout the Indian subcontinent. Two hundred years later, echoing similar comments made by various hunters and observers of Indian wildlife, the British shikari and writer, Captain Thomas Williamson, emphatically declared: There are no lions in Hindustan. Much the same was said about the cheetah in the region. These observations piqued the interest of well-known naturalist Valmik Thapa...

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