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Guindy
National
Park is
a
2.70 km2 (1.04 sq mi) protected
area
of
Tamil
Nadu,
located
in Chennai,
India,
is
the
8th-smallest National
Park
of
India and
one
of
the
very
few
national
parks
situated
inside
a city.
The
park
is
an
extension
of
the
grounds
surrounding Raj
Bhavan,
formerly
known
as
the
'Guindy
Lodge',
the
official
residence
of
the governor of Tamil
Nadu, India.
It
extends
deep
inside
the
governor's
estate,
enclosing
beautiful
forests,
scrub
lands,
lakes
and
streams.
The
park
has
a
role
in
both ex-situ and in-situ conservation
and
is
home
to
400 blackbucks,
2,000 spotted
deers,
24 jackals,
a
wide
variety
of snakes, geckos, tortoises and
over
130
species
of
birds,
14
species
of
mammals,
over
60
species
of butterflies and spiders each,
a
wealth
of
different
invertebrates—grasshoppers, ants, termites, crabs, snails, slugs, scorpions, mites, earthworms, millipedes,
and
the
like.
These
are
free-ranging
fauna
and
live
with
the
minimal
of
interference
from
human
beings.
The
only
major
management
activity
is
protection
as
in
any
other
in-situ
conservation
area.
The
park
attracts
more
than
700,000
visitors
every
year.
Guindy
Snake
Park,
formerly
the
location
of Madras
Crocodile
Bank
Trust,
is
next
to
the
Guindy
National
Park.
The
Snake
Park
in
Chennai
gained
statutory
recognition
as
a
medium
zoo
from
the Central
Zoo
Authority in
1995.
There
one
can
see king
cobra, pythons, vipers and
other
reptiles.
For
ex-situ
conservation,
about
22
acres
(8.9 ha)
of
the
Guindy
National
Park
has
been
carved
out
into
a
park
known
as
the Children's
Park and
play
area
at
the
northeast
corner
of
the
national
park
with
a
collection
of
animals
and
birds.
The
Children's
Park
gained
statutory
recognition
as
a
medium
zoo
from
the Central
Zoo
Authority in
1995.
Animals
in
the
Children's
Park
include
black
buck, sambar,
spotted
deer, porcupine,
jackal,
python, grey
pelican,
night
heron, cormorant, cockatiel, parrot, mongoose, common
peafowl, crocodile, common
otter, rhesus
monkey, bonnet
monkey and common
langur.
The
Children's
Park
also
exhibits
a
fossilised
tree
specimen
which
is
estimated
to
be
about
20
million
years
old[11] and
a
statue
of
a Tyrannosaurus at
the
entrance.
The
Children's
Park
and
the
Snake
Park
have
separate
entrances
and
independent
entry
fees.
Drinking
water,
vendors
and
catering
are
available.
The
entrance
lies
on
the
busy Sardar
Patel
Road next
to
the Adyar
Cancer
Institute.
In
December
2019,
an
augmented
reality
(AR)
show
with
a
capacity
of
20
persons
was
opened
to
public.[12]
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