Mysuru: The Mysuru Zoo, which boasts of housing exotic animals and birds, received four elephant calves from Bandipur Reserve Forest on Thursday to be exchanged for a pair of African Rhinos from Singapore Zoo under Animal Exchange Programme. Mysuru Zoo Executive Director C. Ravishankar, speaking to Star of Mysore said that the Zoo received four…
Mysuru: With bird flu cases reported in Bengaluru, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has taken precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the disease in city. MCC Commissioner G. Jagadeesha has instructed the concerned officials to keep an eye on the poultry being brought to the city from other cities and States. Speaking to Star…
Mysuru: In a setback to the ambitious captive breeding initiative at Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, popularly known as Mysuru Zoo, Ranitha, a 7-year-old Asiatic Lioness died yesterday. She was found injured on right and left shoulders after a fight with her companion Shourya on Oct. 26. Following this, it had stopped taking food. Ranitha was…
Mysuru: As the cold season has gripped the city, it is not only the humans that are feeling the chill. Our animal friends at Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens (Mysuru Zoo) are also finding it difficult to survive the biting cold. With mercury levels coming down, the over 1,500 inmates of the Zoo are taking advantage…
Mysuru: The Mysuru Zoo has come up with a new Android app MyZoo provide information and facilities in the Zoo. In the light of the zoo celebrating 125 years, the app which will help guide visitors inside the zoo was launched yesterday at Hotel Radisson Blu during the inauguration of ‘Annual Conference of Indian Zoos’…
By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] Star of Mysore (SOM): What were the other things that impressed you at Mysuru Zoo? Anne Knapp: Plastic-free zones. No one has taken it as seriously as Mysuru Zoo. When you enter the Zoo they check your bags and if you have plastic bags, they put a barcode…
Indians rarely appreciate the achievements of others. It is only when the Western world sings praises, we wake up. This is exactly what happened when a Zookeeper from the United States of America visited Mysuru. Anne Knapp, Director of Animal Resources at Zoo England, was on a Rotary exchange programme visiting the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological…
Running zoos is a big challenge; become self-sufficient, say experts Mysuru: The day- to-day affair of running zoos in the country is a big challenge these days and zoos should become self-sufficient, said a few experts at the Annual Conference of Indian Zoos organised by Central Zoo Authority and Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, Mysuru here…
Mysuru: Following are the winners of quiz competition conducted by Mysuru Zoo recently: S. Vaishakh Prasad of JSS Public School and S. Bharath of Rotary Brindavan School (I prize); S. Karthik of Sadvidya High School and A. Mohammed Musthafa of R.G.A. High School (II prize); Jayanth K. Iyengar of Sadvidya High School and S. Akash…
Mysuru: Mysuru Zoo will be hosting the annual conference of Indian Zoos in collaboration with Central Zoo Authority (CZA), New Delhi, from Dec.18 to 21. Announcing this at a press meet at Mysuru Zoo auditorium here yesterday, Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) Chairperson Mallige Veeresh said that the first two-days (Dec.18 and 19) of the…
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