Five blackbucks, two male and three female, have died at the Rajkot zoo due to internal injury and brain haemorrhage, zoo officials admitted on Monday.
According to Zoo Superintendent M.G. Maradia, "On Sunday night, two stray dogs from the nearby locality entered the blackbuck enclosure which frightened the animals."
Rajkot: The last place where one would expect an endangered species of wildlife to be threatened is in a zoo. But that is precisely what happened at the newly built Pradyuman Park zoo here on Sunday night when five blackbucks
Nainital Zoo officials have approached the higher authorities to procure a pair of Siberian tiger and tigress as the lone Siberian tiger in the zoo has almost completed its average life expectancy age.
A day after a tigress and her cub sneaked out of their enclosure in the Assam State Zoo cum Botanical garden creating panic, visitors were back thronging the zoo. Sources in the zoo said that visitors had not shied away and like other Sundays the footfall was high.
Guwahati: The unfortunate incident of Saturday failed to dampen the spirit of zoo goers in Assam as thousands of visitors still swarmed the Assam State Zoo on Sunday.
On Saturday a full grown Royal Bengal tigress and her daughter sneaked out of an enclosure only to be tranquilized by the zoo authorities after two hours of hectic effort. Luckily, no one was hurt in the incident.
It has received the much awaited nod from the Central Enpowered Committee and the Supreme Court but the Gorakhpur Zoo is now facing problems related to land. The largest and the most high tech Zoo proposed by the state government that will come up in Gorakhpur has the Forest department and the Gorakhpur Development Authority at logger heads.
After a recent order by the Union Government forbade displaying animals in circuses, elephants at the Calcutta Zoo as well as at the 15-odd circuses that visit the city have been asked to migrate. The Government says that the enclosures are too small for the big animals. "We have been playing to full galleries for decades," says a manager of a circus.
