Mini Zoo & Black Buck Breeding Centre, Pipli

Mini Zoo,Pipli लघु चिड़ियाघर,पिपली
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Coordinates: 29°59′08″N 76°53′37″E / 29.98556°N 76.89361°E / 29.98556; 76.89361Coordinates: 29°59′08″N 76°53′37″E / 29.98556°N 76.89361°E / 29.98556; 76.89361
Country	India
State	Haryana
District	Kurukshetra district
Government
• Type	Government of Haryana
• Body	Forests Department, Haryana
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Website	www.haryanaforest.gov.in

The Mini Zoo is located on Grand Trunk Road near Pipli bus stand in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

Description

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]

Incidents related to zoos in Haryana

• 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]

Album

Representative album of types of animals and birds found in this zoo.

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  Blackbuck fleeing
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  Male and female blackbucks
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  Antelope jumping
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  Bandar (monkey)

References

External links

• A video of a Bengal tiger in Pipli Zoo is here.