About Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary:
- Location: It is located in Assam.
- It is the only sanctuary in India named after a gibbon due to its distinction for containing the densest gibbon populations in Assam.
- River: The Bhogdoi River creates a waterlogged region dominated by semi-hydrophytic plants along the border of the sanctuary.
- Flora:
- The upper canopy of the forest is dominated by the Hollong tree, while the Nahar dominates the middle canopy.
- The lower canopy consists of evergreen shrubs and herbs.
- Fauna: It hosts gibbons; the hoolock gibbons, and Northeastern India’s only nocturnal primate–the Bengal slow loris.
- It also has Indian elephants, tigers, leopards, jungle cats, wild boar, three types of civet, four types of squirrels, stump-tailed macaque, northern pig-tailed macaque, etc.
