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Bengaluru, Tripura zoos likely to exchange animals from April
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Bengaluru, Tripura zoos likely to exchange animals from April
PHOTO : Black bucks in zoo. TIWN Photo

AGARTALA, April 13 (TIWN): Bannerghatta Zoo and National park in Bengaluru and Tripura's Sepahijala Zoo is likely to start exchanging animals by the end of this months, said a official source of Sepahijala.

The source further added that, "As per an agreement, Bannerghatta zoo would provide two lions, three black bucks, two fog deers and two porcupines." 

In exchange, Sepahijala zoo would provide to Bannerghatta zoo a pair of spectacle monkeys, three pig-tailed monkeys and two Asiatic bears.
According to the official source of Sepahijala, both zoos have got the necessary approvals for the animal exchange programme from the Central Zoo Authority.
Last year Visakhapatnam's Indira Gandhi Zoological Park and the Sepahijala Zoo had also exchanged animals.
Sepahijala Zoo, 25 km south of the state capital, is one of India's 22 large zoos.
This is the only zoo in India located within a wildlife sanctuary, the Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary. A portion of the sanctuary was also declared Clouded Leopard National Park.

It is to be mentioned here that in a case of gross negligence on the part of veterinary doctors three clouded leopards at the Sepahijala wild life sanctuary lost their life’s due to babesiosis, a tick-borne malaria like illness caused by species of the intraerythrocytic protozoan Babesia, recently. According to sources two leopards died on March 23 and one leopard on March 24.

Because of the lack of infrastructure, the Wild life sanctuary is losing its glory day by day. Repairing work is pending. The environment centers round the sanctuary is purely becomes unhygienic. The dead skeleton of the animals are scattering here and there which stopped the tourists from entering to the wonderful scenery of the nature.

On the other hand the food provided to the animals is not up to the level. That’s why the condition of the animals living here becomes weak and in the recent days many of them had lost their lives because of poor quality of foods.

 

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