Q. The Keibul lamjao National Park:
is an integral part of Loktak lake and also the only floating National Park in the world.
is home to the endangered Brow-antlered deer
is famous for floating decomposed plant materials locally called phumdis.
Which among the above Statement(s) is/are correct?
Answer: 1, 2 and 3
Notes: All the given statements are correct. The Keibul Lamjao National Park is a national park in the Bishnupur district of the state of Manipur in India.The Brow-antlered deer, which was first discovered in Manipur in 1839 and named Cervus eldi eldi in 1844 in honour of Lt. Percy Eld – a British officer, was reported an extinct species in 1951. It was re–discovered in the Keibul Lamjao Park area by the environmentalist and photographer E.P.Gee, which necessitated declaring this reserve park area as a national park to protect and conserve the deer now called Eld’s Deer’s subspecies Brow-antlered Deer (Cervus eldi eldi) or Sangai(dancing deer) in Manipuri language (to distinguish it from the other two sub species found in Burma and Thailand that are called Cervus eldii thamin and Cervus eldii siamensis and also in Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Hianan island). It has a pride of place in the folklore and culture of the Manipur state and is the national animal of the state.
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