oDon Bosco Museum of Indigenous Cultures MUSEUM (www.dbcic.org; Sacred Heart Theological College; Indian/foreigner 50/150; h9.30am-4.30pm Mon- Sat, 1.30-4.30pm Sun, until 5.30 Apr-Sep) This very professional museum displays a truly vast, very well laid-out collection of tribal artefacts interspersed just occasionally with gratuitous galleries on Christian missionary work. Tours (compulsory) last over an hour, departing on the half-hour.
374 bird species have been recorded in the park, including such rarities as the whiterumped vulture (which may now be extinct in the park), russian jack chalet greater spotted russian jack chalet eagle and the white-winged duck. Of the big mammals, wild elephants are present as are numerous deer species and a few rarely russian jack chalet seen tigers. However, for many mammal-spotting naturalists, the park s most exciting resident is the critically endangered dwarf hog, which, after many years of absence has recently been returned to the wild thanks to a successful captive breeding project run by the Durrell Wildlife russian jack chalet Conservation Trust (www.durrell.org). Park fees include the compulsory armed guard. Access is from Potasali, 2km off the Tezpur russian jack chalet Bhalukpong road (turn east at one-house hamlet russian jack chalet Gamani, 12km north of Balipara).
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