Year: 2004

Type: Special Cover

Country: India

Theme: Wild animal, Forest

Condition: Mint, brown spots occurs

Information: (i) The Asian elephant (Elephas Maximus) is one of the two living genera in the Mammalian order proboscidea, the other

                    being the african elephant. 

                    (ii) Endemic to the Western Ghats in south - west India, the Nilgiri tahr (Hermitragus hylocrius) is one of the world's rarest mountain ungulates.