Among them are the tigers, lions and leopards in captivity at Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park, who have been off their regular diet for two weeks now.
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By Mridula Chari | March 19, 2015
With meat traders on strike to protest the new prohibition, tigers, lions and leopards in a city animal safari attraction have been subsisting on poultry.
Maharashtra’s ban on beef has had an unexpected consequence. With beef suppliers across the state on strike to protest the new move, even legal water buffalo meat is not available. As a result, Maharashtra’s captive carnivores have been forced to subsist on chicken.
Among them are the tigers, lions and leopards in captivity at Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park, who have been off their regular diet for two weeks now.
“The natural diet of carnivores is anyway beef,” said Dr Sanjiv Pinjarkar, veterinarian officer at the park. “In the wild, they eat animals like chital and buffalos and it is the same in all zoos in India. They all feed their carnivores beef.”
The big cats are not the only beef eaters at the park. There are also three Indian vultures, a highly endangered species, that subsist on beef and chicken. The only carnivores that do not eat beef at the park are six rusty spotted cats, among the smallest members of the cat family, who have more variety in their diet. They eat boiled eggs, fish and cat feed.
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