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The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is one of the endemic animals of northeast India and it is the smallest and the rarest wild Suid in the world. The animal was once distributed in tall, wet grasslands throughout the range of southern foothills of the Himalayas, occurring only in the Indian sub-continent (Oliver 1985).
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The authors express their sincere gratitude to the Director and faculty members of NERIST forestry department for providing permission to carry out this work. We would also like to thank all forest officials of Manas NP and Rajiv Gandhi Orang NP for extending their valuable co-operation. We thank all people working in the Forestry department who directly or indirectly helped in successful completion of this work.
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Mary, P.P., Sinha, R.R., Kumar, A., Medhi, M., Narayan, G., Deka, P. (2013). Habitat Characteristics of the Critically Endangered Pigmy Hog (Porcula salvania) of Manas National Park and Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park in Assam, Northeast India. In: Nautiyal, S., Rao, K., Kaechele, H., Raju, K., Schaldach, R. (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_24
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