Home of Asian clouded leopard, Asian golden cat, marbled cat, red panda and bizarre Mishmi takin, the Mishmi Hills, in the far northeast of India, are among the country’s most exceptional wildlife sites.
The Mishmi Hills are rightly famed for their mammals. Tiger, common leopard, clouded leopard, snow leopard, Asian golden cat, jungle cat, marbled cat and leopard cat are all found here, making this one of the world's finest sites for cats. The gorgeous red panda is found in the north of the Mishmi Hills. The key ungulate here is the Mishmi takin, a large relative of sheep. The blackish, somewhat goat-like Chinese serow also occurs, as do Himalayan musk deer, Mishmi hoolock gibbon and Asiatic black bear.
The Mishmi Hills also support a staggering 680 bird species. Highlights include Sclater's monal, Blyth's and Temminck's tragopans, chestnut-breasted partridge, rufous-necked hornbill, pale-capped pigeon, Ward's trogon, green and purple cochoas, rusty-bellied and Gould's shortwings, beautiful nuthatch, fire-tailed myzornis, scarlet finch and grey-headed bullfinch.
The Mishmi Hills occupy the northeast corner of India's most north-eastern state, Arunachal Pradesh. The state's name charmingly translates from Sanskrit as the dawn state, as it is first to see the coming day.
Steeply sloping landforms, high rainfall and subtropical evergreen forest characterise the region. Nowhere else in the Himalayas can so much pristine forest or so much intact megadiversity be found.
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