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Much smaller than Tasmania, but bigger than Australia (#2 in series of south India single-image teasers)

 

 

In many respects, India’s south-westernmost state – Kerala – is India’s “best”.

By area, Kerala is just 57% the size of Tasmania.

By population, it exceeds Tasmania circa sixty times over; the entire population of Australia is less than 75% of Kerala’s.

Kerala includes both the lowest place in all of India and its highest point, south of the Himalayas.

Collectively, Kerala’s citizens are much more diverse, healthier, and more highly educated than are “average” Indians.

Keralans also eat some of the world’s most delicious food.

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A LOT of bull (#1 in series of south India single-image teasers)

 

 


Bos gaurus
– gaur, sometimes (wrongly) called Indian “bison” – used to roam forests across south and southeast Asia.

Their number and range are much-diminished, and their conservation status is “Vulnerable”.

India is now gaurs’ stronghold; in suitable, “protected” Indian forests – most especially, in south India’s Western Ghats – the gaur population is increasing.

Older males are the world’s largest living cattle; 1 metric tonne is not exceptionally massive, and some of the oldest, darkest individuals weigh circa 1.5 tonnes!

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Reading the signs (in northern Namibia: #7 in series)

In northern Namibia – and just about anywhere else in Southern Africa – the pictured takeaway food outlet’s “alarming” sign would cause no unease whatsoever, nor would its meaning be unclear.

”Russians” – with or without chips – have long been a great favourite of southern Africans, whether “dining out” or “cooking up” in their own homes.

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