The case of suspected anthrax infection came to notice after the death of a jackal at the Nandanvan zoo at the outskirts of Raipur.
The zookeepers tried every way to divert the chimp's attention from cigarettes: a walk after breakfast, a music session after lunch and gym after dinner.
In an incident that exposed the shabby conditions of the Kanpur zoo, 31 deer including some endangered black bucks died in Kanpur zoo on Saturday night when a pack of dogs used cracks in the outer wall to barge into the deer enclosure and attack the antelopes.
Five-year-old Guo is one of the three giant pandas living in the zoo in the east Chinese metropolis.
Five days after 31 blackbucks were 1killed by stray dogs in a zoological park in, a suspended guard along with some unidentified persons were booked under sections of Wildlife Protection Act, Animal Cruelty Protection Act and the Indian Penal Code.
A 50-year-old man was mauled to death by two Royal Bengal Tigers in Guwahati Zoo on Wednesday while he was trying to take photographs of the two animals close to their cage, a zoo official said.
Officials at the Marghazar Zoo have started screening, disinfection and isolation of birds for early detection of the disease.
'The irony of this country is that the party in Opposition and the party in power both depend on Muslims.'
"Now, in my view, Bajaj is a bit like a zoo," Bajaj Auto managing director Rajiv Bajaj said on Wednesday, likening the different models from the firm's stable as different animals in a zoo.
A tiger decided to beat the heat at Mumbai's zoo.
Authorities have been forced to make the switch owing to the crackdown on slaughterhouses.
In a bizarre incident, a two-year-old boy fell into a cheetah enclosure at a zoo in the United States after his mother dangled him over the railing and he slipped out of her grasp.
Sixteen blackbucks, an endangered antelope species, were found dead in Kota Zoo with forest officials suspecting pneumonia for the deaths.
Three giant pandas departed Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, on their journey to China on a FedEx Express Boeing 777.
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It then went on to ask whether a lion could be named after Swami Vivekananda or Ramakrishna Paramahansa.
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Firhad Hakim, a senior minister in West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), has defended his remarks on the Muslim population in the state and India, saying he is a diehard secular and patriotic Indian. Hakim's comments, made at a minority students' event, have sparked controversy with the BJP, Congress, and Hindu monks accusing him of promoting communalism and advocating for a Muslim majority. Hakim, however, clarified that his remarks were taken out of context and that he was merely advocating for the empowerment of the Muslim community. He also highlighted the need for greater representation of Muslims in the judiciary.
The wolf had terrorised residents in over 35 villages and with its capture, the local population has breathed a sigh of relief, a statement issued in Bahraich said.
The ordinance will be tabled in the next session of the legislature, it said, adding that 27 posts were approved for the commission.
Athletes dedicating wins to their families, friends and even pets is quite common but flamboyant England off-spinner Graeme Swann has dedicated the ODI series triumph over India to the London Zoo because he happened to have a good time there.
The study revealed that eight percent were unknown species that had never before been described, in the first study to identify the composition of bacterial populations on the skin using a powerful molecular method.
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'The planning and implementation has gone horribly wrong.' 'What they are doing is in effect, establishing a large cheetah zoo.'
The wolves had been behind several attacks on villagers in Bahraich. The Uttar Pradesh Forest Department is taking the wolf to a rescue shelter.
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2023 was the worst for the tiger population, recording the highest number of mortalities in a decade with 178 tigers dying.
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Shocking videos of an ailing wild leopard being surrounded by a group of villagers, who are taking selfies with him and even trying to ride on him have emerged from Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh.
The Madhya Pradesh forest department has refused to provide information under the Right to Information Act on management of cheetahs brought from Africa and their cubs born in India.
White Tiger cubs Avni and Vyom turned one year on Saturday, August 26, 2023, at Delhi Zoo.
The court had asked the West Bengal Zoo Authority to consider renaming the lioness and lion, and wondered why create a controversy by giving such names.
One adult male and two sub-adult female lions were found to have turned man-eaters and 'guilty' of killing locals.
A jilted lover struck 18 blows on the head of his girlfriend on a road in Vasai, near Mumbai, on Friday, even as scores of people watched the gory spectacle, the police said.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had came out with a host of proposals last month.
As the monsoon recedes from most of India, Guwahati was flooded after incessant rainfall.
