Animal Welfare

BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT

Suitable environment enrichment facilities have been provided to simulate the natural ambiance and to manipulate the critical components in the animal enclosure.
Animal behavior is the standard for judging their physical and psychological well-being.
Behavioral management is a proactive approach designed to provide better care and the highest level of well-being by manipulating key elements in a captive environment to achieve changes in animal behavior to resemble closely that of the conspecific animal in the wild.
Suitable environment enrichment facilities have been provided to simulate the natural ambiance and to manipulate the critical components in the animal enclosure. Ex. Wallowing facilities for elephants, sambar; perching facilities for birds; climbing facilities for primates, etc.
Positive reinforcement techniques like food rewards, praise, tactile contact, release to a favored place, etc. have been followed

Housing social animals in social groups and cooperative feeding are regularly followed e.g. reinforcing dominant animals for allowing sub-dominants to receive the feed, attention, etc.

Organizing the programs like sensory stimulation (presence of feed), mental challenge (searching the hidden feed), species-appropriate physical activity by providing preiadoical enrichment for animals

"BEAT THE HEAT TO ENSURE OUR INHABITANTS ARE COOL AND PROTECTED"

The animals are under severe stress during summer. To improve their comfort level, heat relief measures have been undertaken during the last year:

All deer enclosures have been provided with new thatched sheds.
All elephants in the Zoo have been given a shower and allowed to wallow twice every day to provide relief from the heat.
Serpentarium has been provided with mud mounds and mud pots in multiple tiers to ensure differential temperatures for facilitating their different physiological functions. Snakes require variable temperatures for digestion, molting, and reproduction.
Special dietary arrangements have been made for primates, bears, and elephants to cool them off.
Shade nets cutting off sunlight have been provided for aviaries, ostrich, and white tiger enclosures.