National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka

[Nizamudeen Abdul Careem]

National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka (also called Colombo Zoo or Dehiwala Zoo) is a zoological garden in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, founded in 1936. Its sprawling areas are host to a variety of animals and birds. The zoo exhibits animals but also places an emphasis on animal conservation and welfare, and education.

Here are some videos from the Dehiwala Zoological Garden (Click on the topics to see the videos) 

 

EVERY THING YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE SRI LANKAN ZOO IS HERE IN ONE MAIL 

1. Birds and Birds Show - Zoological Gardens Dehiwala Sri Lanka Part 1
2. Elephants and Elephant Dance - Zoological Gardens Dehiwala Sri Lanka - Part- 2 
3. Sea Lions and Shows - Zoological Gardens Dehiwala Sri Lanka - Part 3 
4. Animals - Zoological Gardens Dehiwala Sri Lanka - Part 4 
5. Snakes and Fishes at Zoological Gardens Dehiwala Sri Lanka - Part 5 
6. Museum in Zoological Gardens Dehiwala Sri Lanka - Part 6 

 

Visions for the zoo include, "To create one of the world’s outstanding zoological institutions, that is a centre of the excellence for conservation, research and education" and mission is "Resourceful conservation of animals by means of a learning, achieved through the exhibition of species which were adopted with loving care". The zoo has 3000 animals and 350 species as of 2005. The annual revenue is LKR 40 million.

The zoo exchanges its residents with other zoological gardens for breeding purposes.

 

Animals in Dehiwala Zoo
#	Category	Species	Number
[1]	Mammals	100	450
[2]	Birds	110	1000-1500
[3]	Fish	65	1000
[4]	Reptiles	34	250
[5]	Amphibians	3	20
[6]	Butterflies	30	100
[7]	Marine Invertebrates	10	25

Animal Shows

Educational Programme on Chimps

The elephant's performance are held at elephant arena with certain time table. Pachyderms in shows perform antics such standing on their heads, wiggling their backs to music, hopping on one foot and standing up on their hind legs.Elephant Performance

One of the main attraction of Dehiwala Zoo is "Sanju" - a baby Chimpanzee. Sanju was hand raised and now its show is exerted as educational programme about the chimpanzee's behaviors . People can enjoy Saju's daily routine performances according to a time table.

Sea Lions' Performances

The sea lions' performance are displayed daily at the sea lions' pool according to a time table. Two California sea lions are fed by their keepers during this wonderful moment.

Birds Shows

We can see a good bird show in the zoo on some days and I was lucky to catch them to my Camera on my Visit to the Zoo this time

As this would be a great useful matters to many hundreds of Sri Lankan and other Nationals for Educational Purposes as well , who may have not seen all these even if they have visited the Zoo several times, Forward it to all your Contact

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