The park covers a huge area of 400 kms of dry deciduous forest having three lakes Rajbaug, Padam and Malik and the fort at the entrance. The town gets its name from two hill ranges, "Ranas" and "Thambore" which meet there. The main tourists' attraction here is the royal Bengal tiger. The area of Ranthombore Park hosts 30-32 tigers, showing a healthy ecosystem. For a relatively small area, the park has a rich diversity of fauna and flora - species list includes trees, aquatic plants,birds, reptiles including the Marsh Crocodile & amphibians and mammals are in plenty too. It includes around a thousand chitals, neelgais, a rattle and a slothbear, many sambars, few chinkaras, blackbuck and many crocodiles & python. The birds like cormorants, miniwets, darters, drongos lapwings, onoles, cormorants, kingfishers, stone curlews and eagles & thousands of peacocks and peahens. The landscape is dotted with ancient Banyan Trees, Dhok & Pipal trees, clusters of mango trees and crisscrossed with evergreen belts. The terrain is made up of massive rock formations, steep scarps, perennial lakes and streams and forest suddenly opening up into large areas of Savannah. The terrain of Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary fluctuates between impregnable forests and open bush land. The forest is the typically dry deciduous type, with Dhok, being the most prominent tree.