Eight elephants of the biological park today came out with decorated robes and mingled with the crowd, including the guests and the invited students. For the past 10 years during the wildlife week celebration (first week of October),…
Nandankanan all set to become first in India to have Carnivorous Plants this october
Nandankanan biological park is going to house India’s first carnivorous plant collection by October. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held on Friday to include at least 25 varieties of such plants from five different species across a…
Tiger Family with new kids celebrating first year in Nandankanan zoon in the city
Four cubs, including the melanistic duo, were born to a four-and-a-half-year-old white tigress, Sneha, and her partner, Manish, an eight-year-old Royal Bengal tiger, in an off-exhibit enclosure in the zoo last year. Also Read: First Zoo in India…
First Zoo in India to have rare melanistic or black tiger Nandankanan starts showing them
Two black tigers, born at the Nandankanan Zoological Park on July 28 last year, were today put on public display in an enclosure in the zoo. Four cubs, including the melanistic duo, were born to a four-and-a-half-year-old white tigress, Sneha,…
Nandankanan in Bhubaneswar now has India’s largest open top leopard enclosure
Odisha Forest and Environment minister Bikram Keshari Arukh today inaugurated the country’s largest open top leopard enclosure and a ‘walk through aviary’ inside the Nandankanan Zoo on the outskirt of the Odisha’s capital on the occasion of its 55th foundation…
Leopards in Nandankanan to be kept in Open air enclosure with electric fence
Visitors will have a better view of leopards to be kept in a newly built open-air enclosure at the Nandankanan Zoological Park. The park will be the third zoo in the country after Gangtok and Aizawl to have such…
Nandankanan Zoo celebrates Elephant Day
The eight elephants at the zoo were given a special treatment to mark the occasion. Early morning, the keepers at the zoo bathed the elephants and adorned them with specially designed appliqué apparel and the mahouts took them out…
Nandankanan Set to Be First Zoo in India to Embrace Volunteers
The Nandankanan Zoological Park is all set to become the first park in the country to adopt zoo volunteers programme under which, it can seek services of volunteers for day-to-day management work. The Nandankanan management, which had notified the programme,…
Nandankanan Zoo in Bhubaneswar to get lions zebras from Israel
The Nandankanan Zoological Park in Odisha, India may be getting two breeding pairs of lions and four zebras, not from Africa but from Israel. The animals will be flown over to Mumbai by none other than the Zoological Center in…
White Tigress in Nandankanan gives birth to rare Black Cub
In a development that is likely to catapult Nandankanan, known for its white tigers, into international limelight, a melanistic (dark skinned) cub was born to a white tigress in the zoo here today. The cub was part of a litter…