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Sanjay
Gandhi
Jaivik
Udyan (also
known
as Sanjay
Gandhi
Botanical
and
Zoological
Garden or Patna
Zoo)
is
located
off Bailey
Road in Patna, Bihar, India.
The
park
was
opened
to
the
public
as
a
zoo
in
1973.
The
park
is
Patna's
most
frequented
picnic
spot,
with
more
than
36,000
visitors
on
New
Year's
Day
alone
in
2011.
The
park
was
first
established
as
a botanical
garden in
1969.
The
then Governor
of
Bihar,
Sri Nityanand
Kanungo,
provided
almost
34
acres
(14 ha)
of
land
from
the Governor House
campus
for
the
garden.
In
1972,
Public
Works
added
58.2
acres
(23.6 ha)
to
this,
and
the Revenue
Department transferred
60.75
acres
(24.58 ha)
to
the Forest
Department to
help
expand
the
park.
Since
1973,
this
park
has
been
a
biological
park,
combining
a botanical
garden with
a zoo.
The
land
acquired
from
the
Public
Works
Department
and
the
Revenue
Department
was
declared protected
forest by
the
state
government
on
8
March
1983.
The
zoo
is
currently
home
to
over
800
animals
of
about
110
species,
including tiger, leopard, clouded
leopard, hippopotamus, crocodile, elephants, Himalayan
black
bear, jackal, black
bucks, spotted
deer, peafowl, hill
myna, gharial, python, Indian
rhinoceros, chimpanzee, giraffe, zebra, emu,
and white
peacock.
Having
started
as
a
botanical
garden,
the
park
currently
houses
more
than
300
species
of
trees,
herbs
and
shrubs.
Plant
exhibits
include
a
nursery
for
medicinal
plants,
an
orchid
house,
a
fern
house,
a
glass
house,
and
a
rose
garden.
The
park
also
includes
an
aquarium
which
is
the
largest
revenue
generator
after
the
general
admission
fee.
The
aquarium
has
about
35
species
of
fish,
and
the
snake
house
has
32
snakes
belonging
to
5
species.
The
Patna
Zoo
makes
considerable
effort
to
conserve
and
propagate
endangered
species
from
around
the
world.
Breeding
captive
wild
animals
is
a
difficult
challenge
that
the
zoo
has
met
with
some
notable
success.
The
great
one-horned
rhinoceros has
been
bred
successfully
several
times
in
the
past.
In
2008,
Patna
Zoo
earned
acclaim
for
its
breeding
techniques.
A hippopotamus has
given
birth
for
the
first
time
at
the
zoo
to
a
male
hippo
on
19
April
2001. There
have
been
several
other
hippo
births
since,
including
in
2007.
A
leopard
gave
birth
to
two
cubs
on
18
June
2001,
after
a
gap
of
16
years
since
the
last
birth.
An alligator has
bred
for
the
first
time
in
the
zoo
on
29
June
2001
and
after
that
several
time
in
past.The
number
of
ghariyals
or
alligators
here
have
gone
up
from
13
to
129
in
the
last
five
years.
A porcupine bred
for
the
first
time
in
the
zoo
on
12
June
2001
and
gave
birth
to
two
baby
porcupines.
The
zoo
received
a
white
tiger
in
the
first
week
of
March from
Nandan
Kanan
Zoo,
Bhubaneshwar.
This
has
improved
the
chances
of
breeding
the
tiger
in
the
zoo.
There
is
a
single
male
zebra
in
the
zoo.
It
is
expected that
a
female
zebra
will
arrive
in
the
zoo
if
the
Central
Zoo
Authority
approves
the
proposal.
This
place
provides
a
good
sighting
for
birders.
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