Manas River tiger, elephant, gaur ("Bos gaurus"), four rare species of golden langur ("Trachypithecus geei"), pygmy hog ("Sus salvanius"), hispid hare ("Caprolagus hispidus"), greater one-horned rhinoceros ("Rhinoceros unicornis") and wild Asiatic water buffalo ("Bubalus arnee"). There are 362 species of birds, out of which four species of hornbills (rufous-necked, wreathed, pied and great Indian) have been recorded. Apart from the Ganges river dolphin ("Platanista gangetica") other aquan species identified in the river are the deep bodied mahseer ("Tor tor"), golden mahseer ("Tor putitora"), and chocolate mahseer or katle ("Acrossocheilus hexangonolepis"). Five thousand people live within the park limits in several villages. Tigers,
Endangered Species Act of 1973 endangered species. That meeting was held in Washington, D.C., in February, 1973 and produced the comprehensive multilateral treaty known as CITES or Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. President Richard Nixon declared current species conservation efforts to be inadequate and called on the 93rd United States Congress to pass comprehensive endangered species legislation. Congress responded with a completely rewritten law, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which was signed by Nixon on December 28, 1973 (). It was written by a team of lawyers and scientists, including Dr. Russell E. Train, the first appointed