National Zoological Parks

Staff rescued and handed over to the police a man who was walking on the boulders of the African Lion moat area at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Delhi's National Zoological Park today confirmed the first case of Bird flu.

Aiming to be among the top-ten zoos in the world, the National Zoological Park in Delhi has planned to introduce virtual reality technology allowing visitors to "get closer" to animals and a GPS-based mobile application to make zoo visits more engaging and informative.

For the first time in 56 years, Rita is getting a grand party for her birthday, one that promises to be quite unlike any other celebration. All that is known of the origins of the Delhi zoo's oldest inmate - and its only chimpanzee - is that she came to the national capital from the distant shores of Amsterdam in 1964.

Delhi-ites can finally look forward to sunbathed winter mornings at the Delhi zoo, doors of which have been thrown open by the National Zoological Park nearly three months after being closed amid a bird flu scare.

A captive bird was found dead in the National Zoological park in New Delhi in the last 24 hours, the committee to monitor the birdflu situation said today.

Bird flu deaths in the national capital on Saturday climbed to over 40 with 17 ducks being found dead at Hauz Khas deer park even as the Centre formed a three-member committee to keep a close monitor the situation.

Gwalior Zoo has decided to cull its flock of painted storks after it was found that the 15 birds which had died in the last 72 hours had avian influenza.

The National Zoological Park, which has been shut down temporarily amid a bird flu scare, today reported fresh pelican deaths.

As part of its successful breeding programmes, Delhi zoo has welcomed offsprings of a Chinkara, Gaur and four-horned antelope.

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the city police, the city zoo and the Central Zoo Authority on a plea filed by the widow of a man who was mauled to death by a tiger at the zoo.

The recent incident of a man being killed by a white tiger at the Delhi zoo highlighted the need to restructure and revamp Indian zoological parks, while raising questions over the security of animals and visitors.

The officials at the Capital's National Zoological Park had to face some tense moments on Monday morning after a white tigress escaped from her cage and jumped over a 12ft high fence of her enclosure.The tigress was later captured and put back into her cage.  Interestingly, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh was supposed to visit the zoo...

Staff rescued and handed over to the police a man who was walking on the boulders of the African Lion moat area at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Delhi's National Zoological Park today confirmed the first case of Bird flu.

Aiming to be among the top-ten zoos in the world, the National Zoological Park in Delhi has planned to introduce virtual reality technology allowing visitors to "get closer" to animals and a GPS-based mobile application to make zoo visits more engaging and informative.

For the first time in 56 years, Rita is getting a grand party for her birthday, one that promises to be quite unlike any other celebration. All that is known of the origins of the Delhi zoo's oldest inmate - and its only chimpanzee - is that she came to the national capital from the distant shores of Amsterdam in 1964.

Delhi-ites can finally look forward to sunbathed winter mornings at the Delhi zoo, doors of which have been thrown open by the National Zoological Park nearly three months after being closed amid a bird flu scare.

A captive bird was found dead in the National Zoological park in New Delhi in the last 24 hours, the committee to monitor the birdflu situation said today.

Bird flu deaths in the national capital on Saturday climbed to over 40 with 17 ducks being found dead at Hauz Khas deer park even as the Centre formed a three-member committee to keep a close monitor the situation.

Gwalior Zoo has decided to cull its flock of painted storks after it was found that the 15 birds which had died in the last 72 hours had avian influenza.

The National Zoological Park, which has been shut down temporarily amid a bird flu scare, today reported fresh pelican deaths.

As part of its successful breeding programmes, Delhi zoo has welcomed offsprings of a Chinkara, Gaur and four-horned antelope.

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the city police, the city zoo and the Central Zoo Authority on a plea filed by the widow of a man who was mauled to death by a tiger at the zoo.

The recent incident of a man being killed by a white tiger at the Delhi zoo highlighted the need to restructure and revamp Indian zoological parks, while raising questions over the security of animals and visitors.

The officials at the Capital's National Zoological Park had to face some tense moments on Monday morning after a white tigress escaped from her cage and jumped over a 12ft high fence of her enclosure.The tigress was later captured and put back into her cage.  Interestingly, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh was supposed to visit the zoo...