From Auroville Wiki
The following Animals have been seen by Aurovilians
This list was created after a discussion of what wild life people have seen.
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Bandicoots
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| Big Cats
| near Aurogreen
| mid December 2008
| A small leopard-like creature, spots, ponted ears
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Chameleons
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| Civet Cats
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| If we would have not so much stray dogs we had much more
animals - there are some rabbits,warran,civic cat,sometimes monkey visiting.
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| Deer
| Pichandikulam bridge
| Nov '07, 6.30pm
| Are stags deer? Then AV has deer.
"Hirsch = stag
Deer = das Reh, der Hirsch" of course, i have seen a spotted Reh, twice;
I saw a deer by the Pichandikulam bridge a year ago around 6.30pm ... and i have heard about a Panther around Forcomers .. it seems a guest and an Aurovilian had seen it on two different occasions .... "There used to be deer once upon a time in Utility, when I was staying there. There were only a couple, but one of them was aggressive and used to sneak up and attack you, usually from behind, when walking by yourself through the community. Left you with a bruise!"
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Jackals
| Utility canyon
| Since many years
| We hear them at night. It sets the dogs howling.
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| Monitors (udumbu, warran?)
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Utility
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mid-November '08
2009
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By warran, do you mean monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis)? I have never heard that term before... In Tamil it is called 'udumbu'
Hi priya, he never told me his name,he runs very fast like a crocodile,likes also to sleep lazy in the sun and here I found
Varanus indicus rouxi (Indian Monitor Lizard -German : Waran.
In the past six months (April-October 09), we have noticed 2 baby monitor lizards in the community. One large monitor was glimpsed on our walk to the canyon. He ran very fast, thankfully our dog couldn't catch it.
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| Porcupines
| Pitchandikulam
| Aug '07, 7pm
| Crossing main tar road. Medium size, long quills.
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