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Deepika, India
July 27 2004
Mysore Zoo to gift female elephant to Armenia
Mysore, July 27 (UNI) The Mysore Zoo has pride of place with
contributing to the bilateral ties between India and Armenia as an
eight-year-old 'Komala' a female elephant has been selected to be
gifted to the former soviet Republics-Armenia.
It would be flown to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, from Bangalore
in the first week of September, Zoo Executive Director Kumar Pasha
said.
Following a direction from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Central
Zoo Authority wrote all Zoos in the country asking them to locate a
female elephant to gift it to Armenia. 'Komala', born in 1996, would
be a partner to nine-year-old male elephant at a Zoo in Yerevan, he
added.
The Mysore Zoo, has in the earlier occasion, has gifted elephants one
each to Sweden in 1994 and Sri Lanka in 1998.
'Komala' was hale and healthy and special care would be taken to
shift her to the new location in the Zoo, he added.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Deepika, India
July 27 2004
Mysore Zoo to gift female elephant to Armenia
Mysore, July 27 (UNI) The Mysore Zoo has pride of place with
contributing to the bilateral ties between India and Armenia as an
eight-year-old 'Komala' a female elephant has been selected to be
gifted to the former soviet Republics-Armenia.
It would be flown to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, from Bangalore
in the first week of September, Zoo Executive Director Kumar Pasha
said.
Following a direction from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Central
Zoo Authority wrote all Zoos in the country asking them to locate a
female elephant to gift it to Armenia. 'Komala', born in 1996, would
be a partner to nine-year-old male elephant at a Zoo in Yerevan, he
added.
The Mysore Zoo, has in the earlier occasion, has gifted elephants one
each to Sweden in 1994 and Sri Lanka in 1998.
'Komala' was hale and healthy and special care would be taken to
shift her to the new location in the Zoo, he added.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress