What have you learned about the plants and animals of India?

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This carpet shows us animals and plants in the relative sizes and proportions they would be in real life. (HINT: Compare the flowers to the large cats or the songbirds to the cranes.)

All of the animals shown in the carpet are real animals.



Some of the animals in the carpet can symbolize power and authority.

Go back to the carpet.

Learn more about this carpet.

Go back to Activities.

Make a Carpet Collage.

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