there are around 500 varieties of mammals, 2000 species of birds, 30,000 types of insects and a wide variety of fish, amphibians and reptiles in the region. animal species in north india include elephant, bengal tiger, indian leopard, snow leopard, sambar (asiatic stag), chital (spotted deer), hangul (red deer), hog deer, chinkara (indian gazelle), blackbuck, nilgai (blue bull antelope), porcupine, wild boar, indian fox, tibetan sand fox, rhesus monkey, langur, jungle cat, striped hyena, golden jackal, black bear, himalayan brown bear, sloth bear, and the endangered caracal.