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Barang, Sept 4: Nandankanan Zoological Park is sending two teams to three national parks in the country to explore a possible exchange of animals.
The teams, headed by director Sisir Kumar Acharya and independent range officer Amulya Parida, will visit Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai, Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad and Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Garden in Mysore.
They will look at the possibility of bringing in new animals in the park to attract more tourists.
Nandankanan authorities had started a programme to increase the population of some animals, whose numbers were declining, in the zoo. But the programme failed to yield the desired result.
Several species have just two specimens and the fear is that they may
die soon.
Recently a male partner for the only giraffe, Khushi, in the park was brought from Alipore Zoo in Kolkata. But tragically, five days later the male giraffe Joy died of Theileriosis. In exchange Nandankanan had given four tigers
to Alipore.
