Delhi Zoo acquires pair of Rhea birds to add to list of flightless birds

Delhi Zoo has acquired a pair of flightless Rhea birds from Kerala to add to its inventory of flightless birds like ostrich, Emu and Cassowary that are housed in the zoo. This is a first for the zoo and the pair of flightless Rhea birds have come from from Thiruvananthapuram Zoo.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 22 November 2015.

With this addition, the popularity of Delhi Zoo would improve and its avian population would appeal to visitors. The male-female pair is currently under observation and will be put them on display after the winters. Incidentally, the birds, native to South America, are "highly sensitive" and run the risk of getting attacked. Moreover, they usually bang their necks on the cage and get badly wounded.
The National Zoological Park houses at present 642 birds (as on inventory report of March 2015) and, apart from the Rhea birds, the zoo has also got a pair of spectacled Caiman (American Crocodile), great Indian horned Owls, Brahminy Kites, Bonnet Macaque and Barn Owls from the Kerala zoo.
Many other animals like Himalayan Black Bears, Rhinoceros and Ostrich are proposed to be acquired by the Delhi zoo in the future. Efforts are also on to make Vijay, the popular white tiger, breed with a yellow tiger

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