Kolkata Zoo :- Most popular tourist attraction in West Bengal.

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                      Kolkata Zoo


Most Popular Tourist Attraction in kolkata

The Zoological Garden, Alipore (also known as the Alipore Zoo or Calcutta Zoo) is India's oldest formally stated zoological park and a big tourist attraction in Kolkata, West Bengal. It has been open as a zoo since 1876, and covers 18.811 ha . It is probably best known as the home of the now expired Aldabra giant tortoise Adwaita, who was reputed to have been over 250 years old when he died in 2006. It is also home to one of the few captive breeding projects involving the Manipur brow-antlered deer. One of the most popular Tourist attractions in Kolkata, it draws huge crowds during the winter season, especially during December and January. The highest attendance till date was on January 1, 2018 with 110,000 visitors.


Date opened             1 May 1876

Location                    No. 2, Alipore Road, Alipore,                               
                                    Kolkata -27 , West Bengal
Coordinates               22.535913°N 88.332053°E

Land area                   18.81 ha (46.5 acres)

No. of animals           1266

No. of species           108

Website                     www.kolkatazoo.in


(Courtesy :- Wikipedia)

The zoo has around 1,266 individuals and about 108 species.
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                                 The zoo remains one of the most popular winter Tourist attractions in Kolkata. The footfall figures in 2016 showed an annual visitation of almost 3 million — more than any other tourist attraction in Kolkata, and a peak of over 81,000 on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.


                                  The zoo displays a large number of crowd-pulling megafauna, including the royal Bengal tiger, African lion, Asiatic lion, jaguar, hippopotamus, great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, reticulated giraffe,Grant's zebra, emu, and Indian elephant. Previously, other megafauna like the Panthera hybrids and the giant eland were present.


                                  The zoo sports a large collection of attractive birds, including some threatened species - large parrots including a number of macaw species, conures, lories and lorikeets; other large birds like touracos and hornbills; colourful game birds like the golden pheasant, Lady Amherst's pheasant and Swinhoe's pheasant and some large flightless birds like the emu, cassowary and ostrich.

         


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