Fauna of India

"India has more animal species than any other region of equal area in the world."

"“Then, the presence of zebu genes and representations in Asia and Europe seem to be a promising ground of research, and certainly a confirmation that there was an important movement from South Asia to the West. It is difficult to think that this movement was only of cattle without herders, particularly where we find strong archaeological and historical signs of a common culture. (…) Actually, scholars have always thought of Indo-Europeans as the people of the horse and searched for horses in order to find Indo-Europeans. But they were also, and I would say more, the people of the cow”."

"The Biblical desacrilization of nature and the instrumentalization of other creatures in the service of mankind are alleged to be the doctrinal underpinnings of the massive destruction of wildlife and species diversity in the last two centuries… Stone Age peoples… have exterminated many species… Remark the contrast with India, where in spite of the immensely higher and denser population, no species mentioned in the Vedas had died out in the intervening millenia."