Horse mascot at Tilyar lake complex Inside Mini Zoo

Rohtak Mini Zoo offers a structured, fun and hands-on learning environment for kids

The Tilyar Mini Zoo, Rohtak is located inside the

Tilyar Lake Tilyar Lake is one of the major tourist attractions in the Indian state of Haryana. It is 70 kilometers from New Delhi on the Delhi – Fazilka highway and is located close to the city of Rohtak in Haryana.Page 149, ''India: A Travel Guide' ...

complex on Delhi Road in

Rohtak Rohtak () is a city and the administrative headquarters of the Rohtak district in the Indian state of Haryana. It lies north-west of New Delhi and south of the state capital Chandigarh on NH 9(old NH 10). Rohtak forms a part of the National ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. This Zoo was built in year 1987. The Tilyar Zoo at Rohtak is 42 km from

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

border and the zoo is well maintained,

(entry free for the lake) and Tilyar Zoo are worth visiting specially for families. Fishing is permissible at

after paying INR200 fishing fee.

Mini zoo

Black francolin model at rohtak mini zoo

Haryana had many mini zoos spread across the state. In 2001 the Government of Haryana decided to shut these down and replace them with well developed viable zoos, this included setting up the zoo at

within

complex. As a result, enclosures for housing animals and aviaries for birds were built. Visitor facilities such as landscaping, walkways and trials, gardens, hillocks, lakes, artificial waterfalls, cafe, visitor toilets and resting shelters, watch towers, drinking water facilities, etc. were created. The following animals have been housed in this zoo: *

Tiger The tiger (''Panthera tigris'') is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus '' Panthera''. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange fur with a white underside. An apex predator, it primarily preys on u ...

Leopard The leopard (''Panthera pardus'') is one of the five extant species in the genus '' Panthera'', a member of the cat family, Felidae. It occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa, in some parts of Western and Central Asia, Southern Russia, a ...

Fox Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...

Hyena Hyenas, or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek , ), are feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae . With only four extant species (each in its own genus), it is the fifth-smallest family in the Carnivora and one of the smallest in the clas ...

Wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

Gharial The gharial (''Gavialis gangeticus''), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians. Mature females are long, and males . Adult males have a distinct b ...

* Mugger * Jackal *

Otter Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic, or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family, which also includes wea ...

* Pig-tailed monkey * Baboon * Bonnet macaque * Gray langur * Sambhar * Blackbuck *

Chinkara The chinkara (''Gazella bennettii''), also known as the Indian gazelle, is a gazelle species native to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Taxonomy The following six subspecies are considered valid: * Deccan chinkara (''G. b. bennettii'') ...

Indian hog deer The Indian hog deer (''Axis porcinus'') is a small deer native to the Indo-Gangetic Plain in Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh to mainland Southeast Asia. It also occurs in western Thailand, and is possibly extirpated from China (in sou ...

* Barking deer *

Guineafowl Guineafowl (; sometimes called "pet speckled hens" or "original fowl") are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes. They are endemic to Africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they branched o ...

Silver pheasant The silver pheasant (''Lophura nycthemera'') is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia and eastern and southern China, with an introduced population on Victoria Island in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neu ...

Fantail pigeon The Fantail is a popular breed of fancy pigeon. It is characterised by a fan-shaped tail composed of 30 to 40 feathers, abnormally more than most members of the dove and pigeon family, which usually have 12 to 14 tail feathers. The breed is though ...

Cockatiel The cockatiel (; ''Nymphicus hollandicus''), also known as weiro (also spelt weero), or quarrion, is a medium-sized parrot that is a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia. They are prized as household pets and comp ...

Zebra finch The zebra finches are two species of estrildid finch in the genus ''Taeniopygia'' found in Australia and Indonesia. They are seed-eaters that travel in large flocks. The species are: Previously, both species were classified as a single species ...

Updates related to zoos in Haryana

Deer Park, Hisar The Deer Park, Hisar, on Hisar- Dhansu in Hisar city of Haryana state in India has an area of including a 6-acre plot for producing fodder for the deer. Park as 4 species, blackbuck, chital spotted deer and 6 sambar. It also doubles up as the ...

, founded in 1970-71, is oldest among zoos and deer parks in

* Haryana is now left with five tigers in captivity: two each in Mini Zoo, Bhiwani and Rohtak Zoo and one in Pipali Zoo * In 2003, a baby baboon was born in captivity in Pipali Zoo * In 2009, tiger ''Apaya'' of Bhiwani zoo attacked and killed a tigress. * In 2011, tiger ''Apaya'' of Bhiwani zoo entered the enclosure of another tigress ''Rani'' and attacked her. Rani died and was buried on the zoo premises. * In 2011 another tiger ''Brondis'' had killed a caretaker in Bhiwani zoo. * In 2014, 43 private school kids who were visiting Bhiwnai zoo were attacked by bees. * In 2019, Rohtak Zooo gets Two leopards – a four-year-old Varsha and a three-and-a-half-year-old Pawan

Gallery

Species found at the zoo (pictures for representation only). Tiger_india.jpg,

Mugger crocodile 2.JPG, Mugger crocodile Gharial san diego.jpg,

crocodile Indian_Fox_from_Nehru_Zoological_park_Hyderabad_4274.JPG,

Blackbuck male female.jpg, Male and female blackbucks An_Indian_monkey_(bandar)_in_Malsi_Deer_Park_(photo_-_Jim_Ankan_Deka).jpg, Monkey bonnet macaque Antilope cervicapra from velavadar.JPG, Antelope

References

External links

*Video of Rohtak Zoo i
here
and another video of tiger there i
here
*A travelogue collage of pictures is availabl

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