Forest Department staff pulling out the female spotted deer from the well in Karanai Puduchery village on Saturday. —TAMBARAM: A female spotted deer that strayed into a residential area on the fringes of Vandalur Reserve Forest area after being chased by a pack of dogs, fell into a dry well on Friday night. It was rescued Saturday morning.Forest Department officials said that the deer, about three...
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Sloth bears including a sub-adult cub were rescued by the Forest Department officials in Villupuram last week.The bears have been rehabilitated at the Vandalur zoo, where they were brought on Saturday midnight, the zoo authorities said.While the adult male bear was said to be 12 years old, the female 18 years and the sub-adult three years old. The Forest officials seized the bears from a man belonging...
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18-year-old lion, one of the oldest inmates at the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre at the Vandalur Zoo, was mauled to death by other lionns.The Rehabilitation Centre was set up in a 100-hectare area inside the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at suburban Vandalur a decade ago to house animals rescued from circus and individuals using them for commercial purposes.Sources said, on the evening of November...
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lion was mauled to death at the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre for circus animals near Vandalur zoo on Tuesday.According to sources, the lion, Kannan, which was one of the oldest inmates of the centre, was attacked by two other lions, Shiva and Ganesh. The two lions managed to enter the open area where Kannan was housed after breaking a portion of the chain link fence. The carcass was buried after...
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sloth bears including a sub-adult cub were rescued by the Forest Department officials in Villupuram last week.The bears have been rehabilitated at the Vandalur zoo, where they were brought late on Saturday night, the zoo authorities said.The adult was said to be 12 years old, the female 18 years and the sub-adult three years old. Forest officials seized the bears from a man from Andhra Pradesh, who...
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18-year-old lion, one of the oldest inmates at the Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre at the Vandalur Zoo, was mauled to death by other lionns.The Rehabilitation Centre was set up in a 100-hectare area inside the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at suburban Vandalur a decade ago to house animals rescued from circus and individuals using them for commercial purposes. It was a separate enclosure housing more...
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four-year-old sub adult cow elephant died at Vandalur zoo, on Friday due to a suspected attack of herpes virus.The zoo authorities said the elephant, Chellamma, was rescued from the Andhiyur forests in Erode district and brought to the zoo in 2005. Since Friday morning, the animal refused food. Its head started swelling and administration of prophylactic medicines also did not help.According to the...
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female pachyderm was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the Vandalur Zoo, near here, early this morning.Zoo sources said the staff found the pachyderm lifeless in its enclosure this morning.Zoo Director C L Ananthaswamy confirmed the death of the pachyderm called 'Chellame.' However, he said that he did not know the cause of death as he had been on leave for the last 20 days.Conflicting reports...
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Close on the heels of the death of a five-year-old female elephant under mysterious circumstances at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at Vandalur near here, an eight year-old panther fell seriously ill and was admitted to the emergency unit at the hospital in the complex.The panther, "Dileepan", born in the zoo eight years ago, was in its enclosure and visitors could see it till last evening.Meanwhile,...
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Zoological Park at Vandalur on the outskirts of Chennai is set to shift the four elephants in its collection following a ban imposed by the Central Zoo Authority of India (CZAI) on elephants being part of zoo collections.And zoo officials seem not too unhappy about the move, for some of the elephants have in the past shown violent tendencies and their upkeep is expensive.The CZAI directive dated November...
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