Overview

• The 15-year-old male Indian gaur succumbed to natural, age-related complications after being monitored in the zoo’s care unit.
• Transferred from Mysore Zoo in 2014, he fathered over 75 percent of the zoo’s current gaur population.
• Tissue and fluid samples were sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Bareilly for further examination.
• Zoo staff have provided elephants with shade structures, multiple daily baths, as well as precautionary chains during musth to maintain animal welfare under extreme heat.
• Officials plan a new sponsorship scheme allowing visitors to adopt individual animals for shorter periods to support conservation funding.