11/02/2025
Continuing the series on Grassland species of India by highlighting some of the secondary and tertiary consumers in the food web.
Photo credits:
Pygmy hog: PJeganathan, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ; Wolf: Wang et al., CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ; Desert Fox: Sumeet Moghe, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ; Indian Jackal: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_Jackal_2.jpg
Jackal: Ramki Sreenivasan
All others: Canva Photo Library
*Pygmy hogs are omnivorous in habit. Ref: 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. Knowledge systems of societies for adaptation and mitigation of impacts of climate change, 405-421.