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The Tilyar Mini Zoo, Rohtak is located inside the Tilyar Lake complex on Delhi Road in Rohtak, Haryana, India. This Zoo was built in year 1987.

Tilyar Mini Zoo, Rohtak
Endangered wildlife breeding
Tilyar Mini Zoo, Rohtak Location in Haryana, India Show map of Haryana Tilyar Mini Zoo, Rohtak Tilyar Mini Zoo, Rohtak (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 28°52′44″N 76°38′09″E
Country	India
State	Haryana
District	Rohtak district
Government
• Type	Government of Haryana
• Body	Forests Department, Haryana
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Website	www.haryanaforest.gov.in

The Tilyar Zoo at Rohtak is 42 km from Delhi border and the zoo is well maintained,[1] Tilyar Lake (entry free for the lake) and Tilyar Zoo are worth visiting specially for families.[2] Fishing is permissible at Tilyar Lake after paying INR200 fishing fee.[3]

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 Rohtak within Tilyar Lake complex.[4]

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.[5]

The following animals have been housed in this zoo:[6]

Updates related to zoos in Haryana

• Deer Park, Hisar, founded in 1970-71, is oldest among zoos and deer parks in Haryana
• Haryana is now left with five tigers in captivity: two each in Mini Zoo, Bhiwani and Rohtak Zoo and one in Pipali Zoo[7]
• In 2003, a baby baboon was born in captivity in Pipali Zoo[8]
• In 2009, tiger Apaya of Bhiwani zoo attacked and killed a tigress.[9]
• 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.[10]
• In 2019, Rohtak Zooo gets Two leopards – a four-year-old Varsha and a three-and-a-half-year-old Pawan[11]

Gallery

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

• 
  Tiger
• 
  Mugger crocodile
• 
  Gharial crocodile
• 
  Fox
• 
  Male and female blackbucks
• 
  Monkeybonnet macaque
• 
  Antelope

References

External links

• Video of Rohtak Zoo is here and another video of tiger there is here.
• A travelogue collage of pictures is available here

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