MUMBAI: Animal experts have stated that continuously teasing zoo animals, especially large animals like elephants, and trespassing into their territories are the main provocations that cause the animals to react, sometimes fatally.
Even as the city reels under severe water crisis, authorities at the Jijamata Udyan zoo at Byculla are set to cope with hard times ahead. After an intensive survey to tap inert water sources within its premises, the zoo authorities have revived five borewells to supply water to its ponds and lawns.
Ranchi-based Birsa Munda Biological Park will be the new home for the baby stork that was rescued from curious villagers at Sitarampur dam in Seriakela-Kharsawan on February 12.
The migratory bird, which had a limp and could not fly, was being treated at the rescue centre of Tata Steel Zoological Park.
AHMEDABAD: The exotic birds that were seized by government railway police officials on Sunday, will now finally find a home at Kankaria zoo. The decision was taken after the court intervened in the matter late on Monday evening.
Shyamsundar Vattam, Mysore, Feb 14, DH News Service:
The century-old Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens of Mysore, which has the rare distinction of successfully breeding a number of birds and animals in captivity, is ready for the next challenge
