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`Nocturnal home' a distant dream

A change of management at the city zoo appears to have brought in its wake a change of thinking too: regarding the construction plans relating to the ongoing zoo modernisation programme.

During the tenure of the former director C.S. Yelakki, one of the much touted programmes that the zoo planned was the setting up of a `nocturnal home'— a specially designed enclosure that would simulate night time during the day for animals that are active in the dark.

Now the zoo appears to have given up the idea. "Actually the nocturnal home was not part of the zoo modernisation scheme. It seems as much easy to build as the proposed walk-in aviary," a source at the zoo said. The walk-in aviary remains very firmly on the drawing board with various agencies unable to come up with a workable design for the same.

Now, the nocturnal home seems headed for the same end.

G. Mahadevan

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