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Nandankanan zoo gets largest open air enclosure for leopards
Bhubaneswar: Visitors to the Nandankanan Zoological Park here can now get a close view of leopards with new open enclosure housing the big cats being thrown open Monday.
The zoo, which celebrated its 55th foundation day Monday, also inaugurated a walk through aviary.
Nandankanan is the third zoo in the country after Gangtok and Aizawl to have such leopard enclosure. Presently, three leopards have been housed in the 1,150 square metre enclosure guarded by an 8,000-volt solar powered electric fence.
“The enclosure is designed in a manner that visitors can have a clear view of the animals. It is the largest open air enclosure of the country,” said zoo director Sudarsan Panda.
He said the solar fencing has been set up as a precautionary measure as leopards, who are usually kept inside closed enclosures, are expert climbers and can climb up any kind of fencing.
The walk through aviary, built on a 2,200 square metre area, will have an array of colourful birds.
“These initiatives will help attracting more tourists and they will definitely enjoy the environment. We are also planning to operate the rope-way, which was under defunct condition in the zoo,” said Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh after inaugurating the new attractions.
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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story
The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.
In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).
The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.
The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.
Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.
In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.
The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.