Visiting Place: Arignar Anna Zoological Park.
About Arignar Anna Zoological Park: Arignar Anna
Zoological Park, also famous as Zoo and situated the Vandalur .It is a suburb
in the southwestern part of Chennai, India, about 31Kms from the city centre
and 15Kms from Chennai Airport on GST Road. The zoo is adjacent with the Guindy
National Park. The Arignar Anna Zoological Park established in 1855, the park
was the first public zoo in India. It is accepted by the Central Zoo Authority
of India. The Zoo occupy the place over an area of 602 hectares, the park is
the main zoological garden in India and is home to seven white tigers. The Zoo
has available of 170 species of animals in from 81 enclosures. The Zoo on 48
species of mammals, 64 species of birds, 30 species of reptiles, 5 species of
amphibians, 30 species of fishes, and 10 species of insects in the park.
The director of the Government Central Museum
by Edward Green Balfour, in 1854 at Madras and his thing whole animal gathering
to the museum. It was afterward move to the Madras Corporation and shifted to
People's Park near Chennai Central railway station at Park Town in 1861, as it
was rising. The municipal zoological garden taken one end of the 116-acre (47
ha) park and was open free to the public. In 1975, the Zoo has not spread due
to position constraints, high noise pollution and huge density traffic. Now
presently an idea continues to the
animals in the Zoo better fake circumstance.
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department place aside
1,265 acres (512 ha) in the Vandalur Reserve Forest on the border of the city
to construct the current zoo in 1976, It is the largest zoological garden in
India.
The main thing of the park
are spread of seriously rare type to avoid their destruction, flora and fauna
education and explanation intended at a wider public enjoyment of wildlife, and
wildlife research to help wildlife protection and organization. The zoo park was very arrived
away from the railway station and here be a number of MTC buses and autos. The
entire the Zoo park plastic materials are strictly banned the zoo premises.
There was a warning board which indicated that the zoo is a plastic free zone.
Anybody carrying a plastic material would be fined or locked up. This rule was
compulsory following the death in the park after swallowing a plastic bag.
The zoo veterinary hospital is answerable for disease avoidance and health care management of the park's imprisoned population.
The hospital has a well-appointed hematology,
serology, in-patient ward, radiology unit, laboratory, clinical room, pathology
room, quarantine facilities and convalescent yard fully functional to cater the
needs of complete animal health care.
Arignar Anna Zoological Park surrounding places:
Guindy National, ParkChennai
Snake Park, Madras Crocodile Bank, Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary and Pulicat Lake
Bird Sanctuary
How To Reach
Arignar Anna Zoological Park:
By Road: The Zoo to Chennai
well connected to road ways and distance from 31 km.
By Train: Chennai's three
stations- Central, Egmore and Tambaram. There are daily trains to Bangalore,
Tirupati, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, and Cochin.
By Air: Chennai has an
international airport at Meenambakkam from 15 km with flight connections all major
countries to the U.S.A, UK, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and other. Domestic
airlines connect Chennai with Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Trivandrum, Bangalore and
Cochin.
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