Passes sold out overnight as Delhi zoo welcomes back visitors on first day

Earlier, the zoo had reopened for visitors on August 1, more than two months after it was shut due to a rise in the number of Covid cases during the second wave of the pandemic. The zoo was closed for the public on January 4 and the online ticket booking link on its website was […]

Delhi zoo lets bear out in the open, after ages

An ageing Himalayan bear in the zoo was let out after three years in confinement    After over three years of being left inside a cage, an ageing Himalayan black bear in the Delhi Zoo could be out in the sun to a special enclosure made for it, called a kraal. The 35-year-old female bear […]

Sentenced to life

They may be kings of the jungle but bred in captivity in the Delhi zoo, white tigers are reduced to a mere curiosity — and their quality of life greatly compromised July 21, a warm summer day in 2007, Yamuna gave birth to Vijay. Yamuna is from Delhi — her union arranged like many others […]