Kolkata zoo gets rare attractions

Zoo visitors in Kolkata will now get to see white peafowls, open-billed storks and hamadryas baboons at Alipore Zoological Gardens

Kolkata: Zoo visitors in Kolkata will now get to see white peafowls, open-billed storks and hamadryas baboons at Alipore Zoological Gardens. Alipore zoo director Subir Chowdhury today informing this to reporters said, "We brought 11 pairs of various birds and animals from Orissa's Nandankanan Zoological Park on Sunday evening. These include three rare species - a pair of white peafowl, two pairs of open-billed storks, a pair of hamadryas baboons,"

Besides, in exchange of a male giraffe from our zoo, we have also got langurs, black ducks, gharials, pythons and white ibis birds, Chowdhury added.
"This is the largest consignment we have received so far, and for the first time people will see these three rare species in the Kolkata zoo," he informed. According to officials there were about 300 visitors in the zoo by noon today.(IANS)

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