The Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) on the outskirts of the city would welcome a number of new species soon including the rare yellow anaconda in a major animal exchange programme,
Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh informed this in the State Assembly replying to a written question on Tuesday.
As part of the exchange programme, four white peacocks, two male and two female, and two yellow anacondas would be brought from Chennai. Similarly, the Hyderabad Nehru Zoological Park has committed to gift a male tiger.
Besides, a red tiger would also arrive at the NZP soon, the Minister mentioned in his reply.
The NZP would also be getting four reticulated pythons, two male and two female, from Chennai while exchanging three hippopotamus, two female and one male, and a male Siamese crocodile to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Chennai, he added.
NZP officials have also agreed to send three bears, two male and one female, to the Nawaz Wazir Ali Shah Zoological Park in lucknow in the exchange programme, the Minister added.