Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Two more animals die at Karachi zoo

KARACHI, June 25: The Karachi Zoological Gardens on Monday lost a male urial (a wild sheep) only a day after a nilgai calf (an antelope) had died, sources said.

The sources added that the urial (Ovis orientalist vignei) received fatal injuries when it ran into a fence, while the nilgai calf (Boselaphus tragocamelus) had been hit by an adult of the same species.

Just last week, one of the two surviving female cassowaries at the zoo had died of some liver infection.

The urial, a

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