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Alipore Zoological Garden

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About Alipore Zoological Garden

The Zoological Garden, Alipore also informally referred to as the Alipore Zoo or Calcutta Zoo, is India's oldest formally said zoological park and a big vacationer enchantment in Kolkata, West Bengal. It has been open as a zoo given that 1876, and covers 18.81 ha. It might be nice referred to as the house of the now expired Aldabra massive tortoise Adwaita, who become reputed to were over 250 years vintage when he died in 2006.

It is likewise domestic to one of the few captive breeding initiatives involving the Manipur forehead-antlered deer. One of the maximum famous traveller points of interest in Kolkata, it draws big crowds all through the winter season, specifically in the course of December and January. The maximum attendance till date changed into on January 1, 2018 with 110,000 visitors.

The zoo had its roots in a personal menagerie mounted by means of Governor General of India, Richard Wellesley, installed around 1800 in his summer home at Barrackpore near Kolkata, as a part of the Indian Natural History Project. The first superintendent of the menagerie become the well-known Scottish doctor zoologist Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. Buchanan-Hamilton returned to England with Wellesley in 1805 following the Governor-General's recollect via the Court of Directors in London.

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