Patna Zoo To Get Black Panther, Hoolock Gibbons, Rhino Under Wildlife Exchange Scheme

JE News Desk: For the first time, visitors to the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park in Patna will get to see a female black panther and rare species of monkey, the hoolock gibbons. Both these wild animals will reach Patna from Guwahati on Thursday. A female rhinoceros is also coming to enhance the pride of the zoo.

These animals are being brought from Guwahati Zoo under the Wildlife Exchange Scheme. Under this scheme, a pair of hoolock gibbons, a female black panther and a female rhinoceros left Guwahati Zoo on Tuesday evening. 

Locals have given a giraffe in return for these wild animals. The animals will reach Patna Zoo on Thursday, but visitors will be able to see them in the cage only after 21 days of quarantine.

The wild animals are coming under the leadership of Dr Samarendra Bahadur Singh who is a  doctor of Zoo Animal Hospital. Meanwhile, the Zoo authorities have constructed a cage for the Hoolock Gibbons at a cost of Rs 2.20 crore.

Despite the scorching heat in Patna, there is a huge crowd of visitors in the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park, also known as ‘chidiya ghar’. For instance around 15,400 people visited the park on June 12.