A Different Kind of Zoo
Burdwan Deer Park, which is a Different Kind of Zoo, is located at Golap Bagh in Burdwan district of West Bengal, India. It is also known as Burdwan Zoological Park and also known as Rum Bagan. Many tourists come to see the green sanctuary animals and birds around here. The entrance fee to Burdwan Deer Park is twenty-five rupees per head, and five to eight years old.rs.10. for children free entry for children below eight years. Closed every Thursday, opening hours 9 am to 5 pm in summer and 9 am to 4:30 pm in winter Parking charge 10 rupees to take back the car. Burdwan Deer Park has three types of deer such as Sambar Deer, (They live in marginal and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, they are herbivores), Chital Deer (Dense deciduous semi-evergreen forests and open grasslands, shaded forests are the main ones). Food is grasses, eats flowers and fruit, scientific name is Angis, kakar deer (India, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, tropical and subtropical regions, herbivores, water, scientific name is Muntiacus Munt jic. There is a large number of deer reserved for this deer growing from this place. Park is also called.
Also there are Indian leopards, silver fringes, peacocks, emu birds, red monkeys and langul monkeys, porcupines, star tortoises, box tortoises, foxes, birds include tea birds, eagles etc. Surrounded by sanctuaries and many types of trees are there with name plates on the trees such as Sal teak tree, Banyan tree, Mahogany tree, Amalki tree, Lesser Adieu Tant stork, Ceylon Irom wood, Rain tree, Pon game oil tree, Hijal Tree, Coconut tree, Chebulic Myrobalan tree.
There is Rum Bagan Nature Center where various species of animals, birds, reptiles, statues, statues and their brief descriptions are presented here. This Zoological Park or Deer Park was formed in 1949. Earlier this place was under the Rajas and Maharajas of Burdwan Taluk, it was handed over to the West Bengal Forest Department on the promulgation of the Acquisition under Assist Act. This Deer Park or Zoological Park has been developed in 14 to 15 hectares. There is a dicotyledonous tree fossil preserved here which is 1 lac 60 thousand years old. The nearest railway station Burdwan is 94 km from Kolkata to Burdwan. Available local train from Howrah or Sealdah any many buses on Bardhhaman route.
