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Gwalior zoo fights cold

A tiger in its cell in the Gandhi Zoological Park in Gwalior.

      Gwalior: The Gandhi zoological park in Gwalior is one of its kinds in India, which is 70 per cent modernised and has adequate facilities to keep animals warm during severe winter. To provide some relief to the animals from the severe cold, authorities of the Gandhi Zoological park, Gwalior, have made special arrangements like providing heaters and setting bonfires. The sudden dip in temperatures in the plains due to heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, has affected not only human beings but also animals.

     Gandhi zoological park authorities say if proper heating is not made vailable, the animals may fall sick or die, as habitats of most animals are with hot temperatures. The Director of Gwalior zoo, Dr Pradeep Srivastava, says that 70 per cent of it is odernised. The animals in the enclosures are kept warm by heaters, mats etc, whereas bonfires are lit to warm the animals kept outside. "Most of our enclosure has been modernised to keep the animals warm. However, to keep animals like the deer, which stay in the open warm, we light bonfires," Dr Pradeep. For the aquatic animals like crocodiles and fish, warm water is fed into the ponds.
- Jan 26, 2005

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