White Tigress's Transfer to Patna Zoo Delayed Due to Injury

White Tigress's Transfer to Patna Zoo Delayed Due to Injury.webp

New Delhi, March 5 A white tigress, being sent to the Patna Zoo under an animal exchange program, fractured her leg due to alleged negligence, and will no longer be relocated, officials at Delhi's National Zoological Park said.

Instead of the two-year-old Durga, her sibling Devi will be going to Patna, they said.

Zoo director, Sanveej Kumar, denied the allegations of negligence. Durga suffered a fracture inside the enclosure where wild animals are kept on the evening of March 2.

"She is under treatment and is being closely monitored by the veterinary team," Kumar told
 
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