Hyderabad’s Nehru Zoological Park will soon welcome its first kangaroos from Australia via an animal exchange with Vantara, while arranging a female giraffe companion for Sunny to enrich its exotic wildlife lineup.
Hyderabad: Soon, children, families, and wildlife lovers visiting Nehru Zoological Park will delight in watching kangaroos hop in their new enclosure. For the first time ever, these iconic Australian natives will join the Hyderabad Zoo family.
Vantara, Reliance Foundation’s global wildlife rescue centre in Jamnagar, Gujarat, will gift a pair of kangaroos to Hyderabad Zoo through an animal exchange programme.
Nehru Zoo has prepared special enclosures and a night house for the kangaroos—iconic Aussie symbols—while a Vantara team led by director Brij Kishor Gupta recently inspected the facilities. “This is the zoo’s first kangaroo pair—a male and female from Vantara.
In exchange for the kangaroos, Hyderabad Zoo will send one of its elephants to Vantara. A 2020 plan for four kangaroos from Japan’s Yokohama Zoological Gardens fell through due to Covid-19 challenges. Meanwhile, lonely male giraffe Sunny will soon welcome a female companion from Mysore Zoo by month-end, boosting the zoo’s 199 species and 2,200+ animals and birds.
