A nape is not a... 1  Crown: This is the very top of the birds head, and while the crown and nape are adjacent parts of a bird, each one is distinct. 2  Plume: Some birds have plumes that extend from the crown or nape, and can drape gracefully over the nape.
Evidently, India has a diverse range of forests: from the rainforest of Kerala in the south to the alpine pastures of Ladakh in the north, from the deserts of Rajasthan in the west to the evergreen forests in the northeast.
There is hope in India that if the conservation programme works well with the support of international agencies, Asian elephants in India will multiply and make India a wild-life-rich nation. At the present time, the entire world has just 35,000 wild Asian elephants, out of which 25,000 are in Indian forests. Kerala, the southern state, has the maximum number of elephants in captivity. Elephants are used in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra for all festivals, be they Hindu or Muslim.