Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s1.32

c6.s1.32

An enumeration of domestic and wild animals and fowl is difficult, for their number is legion. In the absence of the present land communications and the measures of security which have led to the elimination of considerable numbers of wild animals, it is easy to picture the old landscape full of wild and domesticated animals. Outside Africa and Australia, India is still one of the few countries which possess a great variety of wild animals. Among the species which have now become rare, if not extinct, were the rhinoceros, a variety of hunting falcons and the lion.