Five births at zoo last week

The 1,200 inhabitants of the zoo have seen the addition of five more members to their lot - two chinkara and three white deer, reports Nivedita Khandekar.

There is more good news from Delhi Zoo. The 1,200 inhabitants of the zoo have seen the addition of five more members to their lot — one of them listed under schedule I — last week.

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Two chinkara and three white deer —from the schedule I list — were born last week. These births came close on the heels of the birth of a baby Hippopotamus a fortnight ago.

With this, the total number of Chinkara has risen to seven (2 males and 5 females), of which three were brought from Chandigarh. The total number of White Deer has increased to five, including two males, Zoo director D N Singh said.

Earlier in June first week, the Hippopotamus family saw an addition to its clan. The news brought some cheer to the zoo, which had seen a spate of deaths a few months before it. The series of deaths over last three months started with pythons in February, a female chimpanzee and a female zebra in May apart from a pair of owls that went missing in April. The zoo has also seen several births under the conservation breeding initiative propagated by the Central Zoo Authority.