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BARRIER DESIGNS FOR ZOOS 2.0 Barriers: An Overview 2.1 Barrier Design Issues 2.1.1 Barrier Dimensions In a zoo, barriers are needed at animal exhibits to separate animal from visitors. The barrier will always be a physical barrier and may also combined with a visual barrier. The Central Zoo Authority in the “Recognition of Zoo Rules” has also emphasized the same. In designing a barrier, since the primary concern is public safety, it is important to know the behaviour and biology of the species to be displayed, so that the minimum depth and width of the barrier can be maintained to prevent animal escape. 2.1.2 Moats vs. Cages The main advantage of having a moated enclosure is to have an open naturalistic enclosure where the animals may display their natural behaviour. Today, caged enclosures at Kamla Nehru Zoo, Ahmedabad, Alipore Zoo, Kolkata, Gandhi Zoo, Gwalior, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo etc. are being replaced by naturalistic moats. By comparison, zoos at Tirupati, Vishakhapatnam have used their natural landscape to form naturalistic moats. There are examples of new zoos, located away from cities, being developed with large naturalistic enclosures at Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Biological Park, Chidiyatapu), Rajasthan (Nahargarh Biological Park, Jaipur), Gujarat (Rajkot Zoo and Nature Park, Surat) and Maharashtra (Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park, Pune). Caged enclosure are being replaced to open moated enclosure at Kamla Nehru Zoo, Ahmedabad 4
Naturalistic enclosure for Sambar at Rajiv Gandhi Zoo, Pune 2.1.3 Naturalistic Moats 5 CENTRAL ZOO AUTHORITY The word ‘moat’ was adapted in middle english from the French motte “mound, hillock” and was first applied to the central mound on which a fortification was erected, and then came to be applied to the excavated ring, a “dry moat”. The term moat is also applied to natural formations reminiscent of the artificial structure. Moated enclosure for Gaur at Indira Gandhi Zoological Park at Vishakhapatnam Moats sometimes are being used as “wet moat” depnding upon the behaviour of animal to be housed therein. Such moat are being used to prevent them from swimming across. The practice of displaying in different kind of moats depends upon the “nature of the animal” unless they specifically affect barrier design. For example the macaques are excellent The use of Moats rather than fences to separate animals from visitors in many modern zoos has been quite popular. The structure, with a vertical outer retaining wall rising directly from the moat, is an extended usage of the ha-ha of English landscape gardening. Wet moat enclosure for tigers at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad
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