Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care

HISTORY OF ZOOS

• The earliest recorded zoological collections associate with cheetah that are currently extinct in India. Emperor Ashoka in third century B.C. respected the ashrams of saints that always had deer and birds. Manageries were the places meant for the collection of animals in earlier periods.
• Documentations are available about the fight between the lions or tiger and man in a captive state. Even mythical five headed cobra was mentioned in earlier records. Hunting of lions and cheetah and tigers was carried out in large numbers once upon a time.

Place	Year of starting of Zoo
Vienna zoo	1752
Paris zoo	1793
London zoo	1826
Philadelphia zoo	1874
Calcutta zoo	1854
Trivandrum zoo	1857