Manipur

 

Description:- Sangai, State: Manipur

Post Office: Philatelic Bureau, Imphal, Pin Code: 795001

The sangai is an endemic and endangered subspecies of Eld's deer found only in Manipur, India. It is also the state animal of Manipur. Its common English name is Manipur brow-antlered deer, or Eld's deer, and the scientific name is Rucervus eldii eldii. Its original natural habitat is the floating marshy grasslands of the Keibul Lamjao National Park, located in the southern part of the Loktak Lake, which is the largest freshwater lake in Eastern India. The film The Return of Sangai, a Manipuri film, Sangai Hallakpa, made by the Manipur Forest Department, is about the Sangai and Keibul Lamjao National Park. The brow-antlered deer, or the dancing deer, is found in its natural habitat only at Keibul Lamjao National Park over the floating biomass locally called "phumdi" in the southeastern part of Loktak Lake. The park covers an area of 40 km², and the home range of the deer in the park is confined to 15–20 km².

Description: Sangai Deer, State: Manipur 

Post Office: Moirang S.O, Pin Code: 795133

 
The Keibul Lamjao National Park is a national park in the Bishnupur district of the state of Manipur in India. It is 40 km² in area, the only floating park in the world, located in Northeast India, and an integral part of Loktak Lake. The national park is characterized by floating decomposed plant material locally called phumdi. It was created in 1966 as a wildlife sanctuary to preserve the natural habitat of the endangered Eld's deer. In 1977, it was gazetted as a national park. The brow-antlered deer, which was first discovered in Manipur in 1839 and named Cervus eldi eldi in 1844 in honor of Lt. Percy Eld—a British officer—was reported an extinct species in 1951. It was rediscovered in the Keibul Lamjao Park area by the environmentalist and photographer E.P. Gee, which necessitated declaring this reserve park area a national park to protect and conserve the deer now called Eld's deer's subspecies brow-antlered deer, or Sangai, in the Meitei language. It has a place of pride in the folklore and culture of the Manipur state and is the state animal of Manipur.