Hyderabad Zoo gets a new addition, an Asiatic lion cub
2 years, 2 months ago

Hyderabad Zoo gets a new addition, an Asiatic lion cub

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Nehru Zoological Park on Thursday announced an addition to its Asiatic Lions population with the introduction of a six-month-old female cub, taking their number to 12. The announcement about the cub, as well as it being named Adhiti at a ceremony in the zoo was made as part of the 68th Vanya Prani Saptah and the 59th Zoo Day celebrations. Dobriyal, after christening the lion cub, also inaugurated an enclosure for African meerkats, and released a pair of white-eared marmoset, a new world tiny primate that hails from the forests in Brazil. The zoo also organised competitions for school children in drawing, painting, elocution and photography as part of the wildlife week celebrations and the winners received prizes from Dobriyal.

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Hyderabad zoo gets new animals in exchange programme
5 months, 1 week ago

Hyderabad zoo gets new animals in exchange programme

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Nehru Zoological Park entered into an animal exchange programme with the Kanpur Zoological Park to diversify and improve the bloodlines of their animal populations. As part of the exchange programme, the Nehru zoological sent a tiger, two male and two female red-eared slider turtles, a male and a female sloth bears, two male and two female four-horned antelopes, …

Royal Bengal Tigress Siddhi delivered five cubs, two alive and three stillborn: National Zoological Park Delhi
1 year, 7 months ago

Royal Bengal Tigress Siddhi delivered five cubs, two alive and three stillborn: National Zoological Park Delhi

India TV News  

National Zoological Park, Delhi on Monday said the Royal Bengal Tigress Siddhi delivered five cubs, two alive and three stillborn on 4th May. BTR deputy field director Lavit Bharti said the decomposed body of the tiger, aged 10 to 12 years, was found in the Panpatha buffer zone two days back. Two Royal Bengal tiger cubs at Mumbai zoo Visitors …

Tiger cubs \'rescued\' by villagers being sent to Tirupati zoo
1 year, 9 months ago

Tiger cubs \'rescued\' by villagers being sent to Tirupati zoo

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The four female tiger cubs ‘rescued’ by the villagers in Nandyal district of Andhra Pradesh were being sent to the Sri Venkateswara Zoo Park in Tirupati, meaning, they might spend the rest of their lives in captivity. The four cubs were found by the inhabitants of Pedda Gummadapuram village in Atmakur mandal, Nandyal district, on March 6. On Wednesday …

Rajiv Gandhi zoo masterplan in the works despite Covid interruption
3 years, 7 months ago

Rajiv Gandhi zoo masterplan in the works despite Covid interruption

Hindustan Times  

The master plan for redevelopment of the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park and Wildlife Research Centre has been put to work in phase one and two simultaneously but has fallen behind schedule due to restrictions imposed by Covid-19. Rainbow formed from sprinkler water sprays and sunlight as lion Pawan sits in an enclosure at Rajiv Gandhi Zoo, Katraj in Pune, May …

Singapore Zoo Welcomes Lion Cub 'Simba,' Born Via Artificial Insemination
3 years, 10 months ago

Singapore Zoo Welcomes Lion Cub 'Simba,' Born Via Artificial Insemination

News 18  

The Singapore Zoo has welcomed a lion cub named Simba to its animal kingdom following artificial insemination that officials said Tuesday was a first for the city-state. It is rare for lions to be conceived through artificial insemination, with the procedure first carried out successfully in 2018 — resulting in two cubs in South Africa. Lion populations in the wild …

Lion cub named Simba born via artificial insemination at zoo in Singapore
3 years, 10 months ago

Lion cub named Simba born via artificial insemination at zoo in Singapore

India Today  

The Singapore Zoo has welcomed a lion cub named Simba to its animal kingdom following artificial insemination that officials said on Tuesday was a first for the city-state. It is rare for lions to be conceived through artificial insemination, with the procedure first carried out successfully in 2018 - resulting in two cubs in South Africa. MEET SIMBA, SINGAPORE'S NEW …

New Little Roar: Amid Covid-19 Lockdown, Assam State Zoo Welcomes Lion Cub Simba
4 years, 4 months ago

New Little Roar: Amid Covid-19 Lockdown, Assam State Zoo Welcomes Lion Cub Simba

News 18  

The Assam State Zoo-cum Botanical garden has been shut for visitors since March 25 due to the coronavirus pandemic but the birth of Simba on June 9 brought the keepers of the zoo back on their toes. The lion cup was born in the confinement of the Assam State Zoo at Guwahati and is the first Asiatic lion cub in …

Sumatran tiger cub learns to hunt from mother at Poland zoo
4 years, 5 months ago

Sumatran tiger cub learns to hunt from mother at Poland zoo

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — A 2-month-old Sumatran tiger cub is getting to know the world and learning to hunt from her mother at a zoo in southwestern Poland, the first such cub born there in 20 years. The as-yet-unnamed female cub was born May 23 as her mother Nuri’s first offspring and the authorities at the Wroclaw Zoo are overjoyed that …

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