Animals Living in AV Forests

The following Animals have been seen by Aurovilians

This list was created after a discussion of what wild life people have seen.

Animal	Where seen	When	Comments/Information
Bandicoots
Big Cats	near Aurogreen	mid December 2008	A small leopard-like creature, spots, ponted ears
Chameleons
Civet Cats			If we would have not so much stray dogs we had much more  animals - there are some rabbits,warran,civic cat,sometimes monkey visiting.
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!"
Geckos
Jackals	Utility canyon	Since many years	We hear them at night. It sets the dogs howling.
Mice
Monitors (udumbu, warran?)	Certitude Utility	mid-November '08 2009	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.
Monkeys
Peacocks/peahens
Porcupines	Pitchandikulam	Aug '07, 7pm	Crossing main tar road.  Medium size, long quills.
Rats
Snakes

See also

• Snakes of Auroville