Ahmedabad: The cramped snake house at Kamla Nehru Zoo in Kankaria is set to get a new makeover. Soon, visitors will be able to view the unique collection of native and exotic snakes in their natural surroundings. For that, one has to first enter the giant belly of pre-historic dinosaur-shaped dome.
Mohali: Nocturnal animals at the Zoological Park in Chhatbir will soon have special houses for them to live in. Visitors will be able to watch the natural behaviour of these animals in
GUWAHATI, Dec 8: The outbreak of bird flu in Assam is confirmed after laboratory tests. Assam State Zoo and Botanical Garden has come up with various precautionary measures inside and in the surrounding areas of the zoo in the wake culling operations which had started in the state.
From Shyam Sundar Vattam, Mysore: Authorities at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Park, Mysore, are finding hard to push for the adoption of elephants because of the 'jumbo' cost involved in it.
There has been just one instance of a pachyderm being adopted. The zoo has fixed a sum of Rs 1.60 lakh per year as the cost of adoption of an elephant.
The Assam State Zoo has received the green signal for breeding a rare species of pheasants, a measure that brings in fresh hope to an endangered bird of the region. It is also a development that has reinforced the zoo
Lucknow: What killed the black bucks in Kanpur zoo is still to be known. In order to ascertain the cause of the death of five black bucks in Kanpur zoo in the first week of September, the viscera of the dead animals and samples of food and water that was given to them, was sent for examination to the Centre for Wildlife, Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) Bareilly.
