Mini Zoo & Black Buck Breeding Centre, Pipli
Place in Haryana, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mini Zoo is located on Grand Trunk Road near Pipli bus stand in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.
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| Coordinates: 29°59′08″N 76°53′37″E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Haryana |
| District | Kurukshetra district |
| Government | |
| • Type | Government of Haryana |
| • Body | Forests Department, Haryana |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Website | www.haryanaforest.gov.in |
Spread over 27 acres of land along the National Highway-1 in Kurukshetra, Pipli zoo is one of the three maintained zoos of the state wildlife department. The other two are in Rohtak and Bhiwani. The zoo has the following animals:[1]
- Deer Park, Hisar, founded in 1970-71, is oldest among zoos and deer parks in Haryana
- Haryana is now left with 5 tigers in captivity: 2 each in Mini Zoo, Bhiwani and Rohtak Zoo and 1 in Pipali Zoo[2]
- In 2003, a baby baboon was born in Pipali Zoo[3]
- In 2009, tiger Apaya of Bhiwani zoo attacked and killed another tigress.[4]
- In 2011, tiger Apaya of Bhiwani zoo entered the enclosure of another tigress Rani and attacked her. Rani died and was buried on the zoo premises.
- In 2011 another tiger Brondis had killed a caretaker in Bhiwani zoo.
- In 2014, 43 private school kids who were visiting Bhiwnai zoo were attacked by the bees.[5]
Pipli Sarasvati Riverfont is being developed are a riverfront. In 2021, Haryana Sarasvati Heritage Development Board initiated projects to develop 5 river fronts under the under Sarasvatio Revival Project on the rejuvenated Sarasvati river at Pipli, Pehowa, Bilaspur, Dosarka (on Panchkula-Yamunanagar NH-344 near Sirsgarh) and the Theh Polar (near Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilisation archaeological site on Kaithal-Guhla SH-11). Pipli riverfront will be on the pattern Sabarmati Riverfront.[6]
It is one of the important tirtha in the 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra.
Representative album of types of animals and birds found in this zoo.
Blackbuck fleeing
Male and female blackbucks
Antelope jumping
Bandar (monkey)
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