“India has the largest population of the Asian X. Today, there are just about 20,000 to 25,000 X in their natural habitats spreading across the evergreen forests, dry thorn forests, swamps and grasslands. Their prime habitats, are however the moist deciduous forests. The X population in India is spread from north-west India where they are found in the forest divisions of Dehradun, Bijnor and National districts of UP to the Western Ghats in the states of Karnataka and Kerala and Tamil Nadu. In Central India, their population is distributed over Southern Bihar and Odisha. In the East, they are seen in North Bengal, Assam and a few other states.” The animal “X” referred to in this quotation is