What was most interesting in Alipore Zoo

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The Alipore zoo in Kolkata (or Kolkata zoo in short) is one of the oldest zoo in India, established in 1875. It is situated in Alipore road, by the side of National Highway It is spread across 46 acres of land. Though looking at the size and population of Kolkata 46 acres is nothing for a zoo of this kind, it is still quite popular and visited by large number of people on every day.

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The entry fee to Alipore zoo is Rs 20. Still cameras are allowed inside. However shooting by handycam is not allowed inside. We were allowed to carry the handycam but the security personnel told not to use the handycam. I don't know their objectives exactly as because everybody were taking videos in digital cameras and mobile phones.
Let me speak about the items that I was attracted or were impressive to me. One of the major attractions was Chimpanzee. We could see only one chimpanzee who was entertaining spectators with his majestic style and funny activities. He was sitting still like a statue for long time and changing position a little after lot of hue and cry by the huge crowd.
The other important attraction was black bear. The the bear was looking very sad and lonely. I must thank her atleast she was sitting outside her cage and giving darshan to the crowd. Apart from the above there were tiger, zebra and a few other animals. We saw an arrow mark for "elephants" but could not find any even after taking a full round.



By and large we saw that there were very few animals and the animals were sad, lonely and (probably) sick. They were not looking active and not playing among themselves. Though I don't known the reasons, anybody at the first guess can say because of the poor management of the zoo.



Now I am sure you will ask me what was most interesting in the zoo. Frankly speaking the animals were not so attractive. But the great surprise was the crowd. The whole zoo was full of visitors. If there were only 20 animals (except small birds) there were about 20,000 visitors (in my estimation). Many of them were even looking at the crows (and other regular flying birds) who had come inside the zoo area by chance. I saw a crowd around a chicken who was moving free (no idea where it came from). Thousands of people were just moving everywhere to see something. To me the most interesting was the crazy human crowd in the zoo.

Thank you for reading this blog. Please feel free to see some more pictures of the zoo in my google+ album below.
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