Nainital zoo authorities on high alert after bird flu hits Delhi zoo

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Pithoragarh, October 27

Special care is being taken in maintaining animals and pheasants at the Pt GB Pant High Altitude Zoo in Nainital after bird flu struck pheasants in the Delhi and Gwalior zoos last week.

DS Meena, director of the high land animal zoo at Nainital, said “We have taken cognizance of the incidents in the Delhi and Gwalior zoos and have restricted providing eggs and chicken in diet to pheasants and high land animals”.

Lime and corso line spray is being done outside the cages of the animals in the zoo as a special measure against infection. The biologists, veterinary doctors and keepers of the zoo have been instructed to take special care and remain alert against any infection, Meena said.

“We have instructed keepers of the zoo to enter only after wearing face masks and have started giving mineral mixture in diet to peacocks, leopards and various high land varieties of owls kept in the zoo,” the zoo director said.

The zoo is a habitat to over 235 high land animals, including 180 varieties of Himalayan pheasants.