BALLARI: The next time you visit Ballari Mini Zoo, roaring tigers will welcome you. The zoo, which lost its only tiger Bhima in December last year, will soon welcome a pair of tigers as the Zoo Authority of Karnataka has agreed to bring two tigers to the zoo.
Bhima, one of the oldest captive royal Bengal tigers in the country, died on December 6 last year due to old age. The 23-year-old Bhima had attracted hundreds of animal lovers every day. Since Bhima’s death, visitors would ask soo staff if there was any plan to bring new tigers to the zoo.
As per the demand of visitors, the governing council of the Zoo Authority of Karnataka has agreed to bring new tigers.
Purushotham K, executive director of Atal Bihari Zoological Park at Hosapete, told Express that a meeting of the authority held in Mysuru gave its nod to search for two tigers to bring them to the mini zoo. “I placed the proposal in the meeting, which gave its nod in this regard. A male and a female tiger, both adults, will be brought to the mini zoo,” he said.