The birds are singing. The colourful colored peacocks are dancing. The monkeys are leaping out of pleasure. The often lazy-looking crocodiles are awake. Pandas are out of their caves. The animals at Sakkarbaug Zoo in Gujarat’s Junagadh are thrilled to welcome two new zoo-mates – a pair of white tigers (female and male).
Masking over 100 kms, two white tigers have come to Sakkarbaug Zoo from Pradhyuman Zoological Park in Rajkot.
Nevertheless, Sakkarbaug Zoo needed to let go of a pair of lions in alternate for the tigers. A female and male lion have been despatched to the Pradhyuman Park.
The white tiger couple was saved in a quarantine facility for 21 days as per the rules of the Central Zoo Authority (CZA). The 2 tigers have been placed on the jungle safari route.
After two and a half years, vacationers will see the wonder on the Sakkarbaug Zoo. Vacationers should shell out Rs. 50 further to see the white tiger.
The give and take of lions and tigers came about beneath the Animal Trade Program. The Central Zoo Authority (CZA), a statutory physique of the Ministry of Surroundings, Forest and Local weather Change believes that the position of Zoo has modified from “mere exhibition centres to centres of conservation”.
CZA opines that Zoos have a duty to supply the animals of their inventory higher housing and maintenance which may be sure that there aren’t any untimely deaths and that the animals reside a top quality lifetime of ample longevity.
“This goal may be achieved solely by means of expeditious switch/alternate of animals from one Zoo to a different. Preserving single animals or unpaired animals merely for the sake of accelerating the variety of species on show is counter productive,” it says.
(With inputs from Mahendra Prasad)