| Largest land mammal | - | Elephant (Elephas m. indicus) average 2.74 height and 4.5 ton weight |
| Country's only ape | - | Hoolock or Whitebrowed Gibbon (Hylobates hoolock) in Assam. It is the only monkey with no tail |
| Least common langur | - | The Golden Langur of north western Assam, buit the most, endangered species is the Nilgiri Langur |
| Smallest / lightest primates | - | Slender Loris, found in South India (280-340 gms and 8-10 inch tail) |
| Largest deer | - | Sambar (Vervus unicolor) |
| Largest antelope | - | Nilgal (Boselaphus tragocamelus) |
| Only flying mammal | - | Bats (chiroptera) |
| Most carnivorous | - | The Indian False Vampire bat |
| Longest horns | - | Indian Water Buffalo (4.24m) |
| Largest Bird | - | Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) - 1.52m tail |
| Smallest and Lightest | - | Plaincoloured Flowerpecker (Dicaeum concolor) - 7 cm and 4-5 gms |
| Heaviest | - | Great Indian Bustard (Choriotis nigriceps) - average weight 11.37 - 13.63 kg |
| Swiftest | - | Brownthroated Spinetailed upto 250-300 km / hour |
| Slowest | - | Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) - flies under 8 km / hour |
| Longest egg | - | Sarus Crane (31 - 35 cm) |
| Shortest legs | - | Crested Tree Swift (Hemiprocene longi - pennis) - 7 to 9 mm |
| Largest egg | - | Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) 10.4 cm X 6.4 cm |
| Smallest egg | - | Scarletbacked Flower (Dicaeum cruentatum) - 14 X 10.3 mm |
| Only falcon that builds nest | - | Redheaded Merlin (Falco chiquera) |
| Snake, Longest | - | Reticulated Python in Nicobar Islands and Sunderbans (10m long) |
| Most venomous | - | Common Indian Krait (15 times more virulent than cobra) |
| Most dangerous | - | Sawscaled Viper |
| Fastest | - | Rat snakes and Bronzeback Tree Snakes (upto 10km per hour) |
| Only 'Flying Snake' | - | Golden Tree Snake (capable of gliding by launching itself from height) |
| At the highest altitude | - | Himalayan Pit Viper |
| Largest Lizard | - | Water Monitor (length upto 2.5m) |
| Legless | - | Snake Lizard or Legless Lizard (Ophisaurus gracilis) |
| Gliding | - | Draco norvilli of Assam and Draco dussumieri of South India |
| Longest Tongue | - | Chameleon, tongue length is three fourth of its body size |
| Longest tail in relation to body size | - | Long tailed Grassy Lacertid (Measures only 5 cm, but the tail is 35 cm long a ratio of 1:7) found in Khasi hills, Meghalaya |
| First and Largest crocodile bank | - | Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, 40km off Chennai |
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