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🐝 Checking in to the bee hotel
Bee hotels have cropped up across the city as scientists want to integrate them into urban spaces.
🦥 Sloth bear adopted by school students
125 school students adopted a sloth bear to raise awareness of conservation.
🐒 Baboons imported from Singapore
Three Hamadryas Baboons, also known as old-world monkeys, imported from Singapore zoo will soon be sent to the Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP).
🐯 Bannerghatta zoo’s mating crisis
According to Bannerghatta zoo officials, their tigers are roaming around with surprisingly low reproductive rates this season.
🦮 Adopt, don’t shop
There’s been a sudden hike in enquiries for female Labradors in the city. Turns out, everyone’s seen 777 Charlie and now, everybody wants a dog.