Rainfall unites Mangaloreans: Muslims extend helping hand to drain waterlogged temple
Widely appreciated on social media
Mangaluru, May 30: The city of Mangaluru, which carried a stigma of communal violence and hatred atmosphere in recent days, seems to overcome from it after the Tuesday’s heavy rainfall.
Though the residents are suffering from the rain and cursing the failure of the administration, people from different communities have come together forgetting their religious differences.
Heavy rains that lashed the city on Tuesday led to waterlogging at a temple near Shiva Nagar in Pandeshwar. Members of Muslim community extended a helping hand to drain the water. The photos and videos of this act, which went viral on social media, are being appreciated a lot.
Social networking users are saying that natural disasters unite people who are fighting at each other for politics.
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Pilikula zoo to welcome penguins, Asiatic lion, yellow anacondas under animal exchange initiative
Mangaluru: Pilikula Biological Park is preparing to welcome a range of new species, including an Asiatic lion, penguins, and yellow anacondas, as part of an animal exchange program.
H. Jayaprakash Bhandary, the park's director, stated that the zoo will receive a male Asiatic lion, wolves, exotic birds, and gharial crocodiles from Nandankanan Biological Park in Odisha. In return, Pilikula will send dhole (wild dog), reticulated pythons, Asian palm civets, and Brahminy kites to Nandankanan.
Additionally, penguins native to South America will be brought from Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo in Mumbai, with Pilikula providing marsh crocodiles in exchange.
Yellow anacondas will be brought from the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust in Chennai, in return for Indian cobras and other venomous snakes from Pilikula.
Exotic birds from S.V. Zoological Park (Tirupati zoo), Andhra Pradesh will be exchanged for Asian palm civets and other animals.
Bhandary noted that the penguins will require a special enclosure to provide a supportive environment, which will be created with the help of CSR funds or donors. He added that the introduction of penguins will lead to an increase in the number of visitors to the zoo.
