Chennai: At the corner of the cage in the children’s park located a 13-day gonggong deer, the latest addition and main attraction.
Warden Warden E Chennai E Prasant said it was the first Fawn born in the park this year, a successful birth for species (Muntiacus vomit) after several years.
Fawn is being fed green, grass, gram Bengal and rice oil cake.
The mother, said Prasant, possessive about her Fawn and even disturbed by the presence of animal guards.
The Father is even more sensitive, he said.
A few days ago, when workers came to cover the upper part of the net with nets, men scale eight foot high partitions and are now separated from the mother and deer, prasital said.
While the shy deer bark is omnivores in the wild, feed bird eggs and warm bloody animals, in captivity they are raised as herbivores.
In the park, they managed to breed until a few years ago.
Now, there are only three.