Two days after giraffe ‘Joy’ died of theileriosis at the Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP), the NZP authorities on Thursday wrote to their Alipore Zoo counterparts requesting them to send another male giraffe.
Besides, the Nandankanan authorities have also apprised the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) of the circumstances leading to the death of the giraffe on February 29.
Expressing sadness over the death of the male giraffe, Alipore Zoo Director Ashish Samant had said on Wednesday he had not received a detailed report from his Nandankanan counterparts on the death of the giraffe. He had stated that there are six healthy giraffes at the Alipore Zoo, and would consider sending another if the Nandankanan authorities make a request in this regard.
A day after the death of the giraffe, the State Government had constituted a three-member committee headed by former PCCF Saroj Patnaik to investigate the cause of the death.
The five-year-old giraffe had been brought to Nandankanan from the Alipore Zoo in Kolkata on February 24 under an animal exchange programme for mating with the lone Nandankanan female giraffe ‘Khusi’. Nandankanan had swapped four of its tigers to get the long-necked animal.
NZP Director Sudarshan Panda said steps would be taken to preserve the memories of Joy in the zoo. While the skeleton of the giraffe would be preserved, the photographs and the memorabilia of its entire journey and short stay here would be documented and kept in the museum.