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Four `gharials' arrive at Tirupati zoo

Staff Reporter

Red jungle fowl also added to the list of zoo inmates

EXOTIC EXHIBITS: The two `gharials' which arrived at the S.V. Zoo Park in Tirupati on Monday from Visakhapatnam zoo. — Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar

TIRUPATI : A visit to the Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park, Tirupati, is going to be more attractive hereafter.

Four `gharials' and a red jungle fowl have been brought from Indira Gandhi zoological park, Visakhapatnam on Monday.

The `gharials', which are a river-water version of the common crocodiles, are 18 to 24 months old and measure 1 metre in length.

"We are providing a lot of fish and minced meat to the `gharials', which are in the acclimatisation process," Curator K. Chandrasekhar Pillai told mediapersons.

Housed in separate enclosures, the `gharials' would grow to maturity in ten years.

New arrival

While the zoo already has a female red jungle fowl, the new arrival is a male, which is specific to central and northern parts of the country.

Reacting to a number of complaints received recently, Mr. Pillai appealed to visitors not to tease the wild animals, litter the premises with plastic carrybags and also not to cross the barricades.

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