Cozy winter ahead for Hyderabad’s Nehru zoo park inmates

From installing heaters, arranging wooden planks, covering with gunny nets to placing green shades, the Nehru Zoological Park has made elaborate arrangements to ensure its inmates stay warm and healthy this winter season

Hyderabad: With night temperatures dropping in the city, Nehru Zoological Park has initiated measures to keep its animals warm and healthy this winter season.

To ensure the animals’ body temperature remains normal, heaters have been arranged based on species in all night houses of carnivores, primates and bears. In addition, primate night houses are covered with green shade to avoid cold waves. Further, gunny cloths have been placed on the carnivores’ night houses to protect the animals from pneumonia due to cold weather.

As for birds, 75 percent of their night