Vandalur zoo

Vandalur Zoo is also called as the Arignar Anna Zoological Park. It is located nearly about thirty kilometers from Chennai city. Chennai has the peculiarity of having the first public zoo in India at 1855. It was initially situated in close proximity to Park town in the Chennai city.

In 1975, the vandular zoo had prolonged and moved out of the Chennai city. The Tamilnadu Forest department converted this zoo to Vandalur reserve forest in the year 1979. The zoo is situated on a region of thousands five hundred acres. The zoo is officially inducted in year 1985. This zoo is one of the biggest in South Asia.

The Vandalur zoo has undergone a lot of enhancement with original animals making their comfortable home here. An extensive range of animal life is habituated in this zoo. Animals can be glimpse in big open island type enclosure along with wet and dry moats and hidden walls with pretend natural background. There are utterly eighty one enclosures. More than one seventy species of mammals, aviaries and reptiles are exhibited in the zoo.

Some of the magnetism in the vandalur zoo is scheduled below.

• Various types of deer sort from barking deer, sambar, blackbuck, nilgai, sangai, and hog deer
• Monkey species ranges from Nilgiri Langur, the endangered lion-tailed Macaque, Babboon, Hanuman Langur and Leaf capped Langur
• Wolf
• Jackal
• Hyena, llama and Otter.
• privileged carnivores like the tiger, lion, panther, jaguar
• Elephants, giraffes, deer’s and camels
• Star tortoises
• Snakes
• Tropical mammals, birds and reptiles

Other interesting aspects of this zoo are 

• Nocturnal animal house
• Safari Park
• A walk-through aviary 
• Pre-historic animal park 
• Reptile section 
• Prey-Predator enclosures 
• Zoo education and interpretation 
• An aquarium.

Keywords: Chennai, vandalur, elephant, tiger

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