Mini Zoo & Black Buck Breeding Centre, Pipli

Mini Zoo,Pipli
लघु चिड़ियाघर,पिपली
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Mini Zoo,Pipli
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Mini Zoo,Pipli
Coordinates: 29°59′08″N 76°53′37″E / 29.98556°N 76.89361°E / 29.98556; 76.89361Coordinates: 29°59′08″N 76°53′37″E / 29.98556°N 76.89361°E / 29.98556; 76.89361
Country  India
State Haryana
District Kurukshetra district
Government
 • Type Government of Haryana
 • Body Forests Department, Haryana
Languages
 • Official Hindi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Website www.haryanaforest.gov.in

The Mini Zoo is located on Grand Trunk Road near Pipli bus stand in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

Description

Spread over 27 acres of land along the National Highway-1 in Kurukshetra, Pipli zoo is one of the three maintained zoos of the state wildlife department. The other two are in Rohtak and Bhiwani. The zoo has the following animals:[1]

  • Deer Park, Hisar, founded in 1970-71, is oldest among zoos and deer parks in Haryana
  • Haryana is now left with 5 tigers in captivity: 2 each in Mini Zoo, Bhiwani and Rohtak Zoo and 1 in Pipali Zoo[2]
  • In 2003, a baby baboon was born in Pipali Zoo[3]
  • In 2009, tiger Apaya of Bhiwani zoo attacked and killed another tigress.[4]
  • In 2011, tiger Apaya of Bhiwani zoo entered the enclosure of another tigress Rani and attacked her. Rani died and was buried on the zoo premises.
  • In 2011 another tiger Brondis had killed a caretaker in Bhiwani zoo.
  • In 2014, 43 private school kids who were visiting Bhiwnai zoo were attacked by the bees.[5]

Album

Representative album of types of animals and birds found in this zoo.

References

  1. ↑ Haryana Forests Dept Archived 12 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Tigress killed by tiger in Haryana zoo
  3. ↑ Baby Baboon born in Pipli Zoo
  4. ↑ Tigress killed by tiger in Haryana zoo
  5. ↑ चिड़ियाघर घूमने आए बच्चों को मधुमक्खियों ने काटा
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