Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park

The park was first established as a botanical garden in 1969. The then Governor of Bihar, Sri Nityanand Kanungo, provided almost {{convert|34|acre|ha}} of land from the Governor House campus for the garden. In 1972, Public Works added {{convert|58.2|acre|ha}} to this, and the Revenue Department transferred {{convert|60.75|acre|ha}} to the Forest Department to help expand the park.

Since 1973, this park has been a biological park, combining a botanical garden with a zoo. The land acquired from the Public Works Department and the Revenue Department was declared protected forest by the state government on 8 March 1983.

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The zoo is currently home to over 800 animals of about 110 species, including tiger, leopard, clouded leopard, hippopotamus, crocodile, elephants, Himalayan black bear, jackal, black bucks, spotted deer, peafowl, hill myna, gharial, python, Indian rhinoceros, chimpanzee, giraffe, zebra, emu, and white peacock.

Having started as a botanical garden, the park currently houses more than 300 species of trees, herbs and shrubs. Plant exhibits include a nursery for medicinal plants, an orchid house, a fern house, a glass house, and a rose garden.

The park also includes an aquarium which is the largest revenue generator after the general admission fee. The aquarium has about 35 species of fish, and the snake house has 32 snakes belonging to 5 species.

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The Patna Zoo makes considerable effort to conserve and propagate endangered species from around the world. Breeding captive wild animals is a difficult challenge that the zoo has met with some notable success.

• The great one-horned rhinoceros has been bred successfully several times in the past. In 2008, Patna Zoo earned acclaim for its breeding techniques.
• A hippopotamus has given birth for the first time at the zoo to a male hippo on 19 April 2001.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} There have been several other hippo births since, including in 2007.
• A leopardess named Reena at zoo gave birth to two cubs on 18 June 2001, marking the zoo's first successful leopard breeding in 16 years. She gave birth again to two cubs on 4 March 2002, within nine months.{{Cite news |date=2002-03-18 |title=Zoo welcomes new arrivals |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/zoo-welcomes-new-arrivals/articleshow/4105231.cms |access-date=2025-01-12 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}
• An alligator has bred for the first time in the zoo on 29 June 2001 and after that several time in past. The number of gharials or alligators here have gone up from 13 to 129 in the last five years.
• A porcupine bred for the first time in the zoo on 12 June 2001 and gave birth to two baby porcupines.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}File:Rhino at rest.jpg

• The zoo received a white tiger in the first week of March{{When|date=March 2011}} from Nandankanan Zoo, Bhubaneshwar. This has improved the chances of breeding the tiger in the zoo.
• There is a single male zebra in the zoo. It is expected{{When|date=March 2011}} that a female zebra will arrive in the zoo if the Central Zoo Authority approves the proposal.

This place provides a good sighting for birders.

File:Jungle Babbler (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|Jungle Babbler

File:Black drongo (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|Black drongo

File:Black hooded oriole (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|Black hooded oriole

File:White throated kingfisher (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|White throated kingfisher

File:Oriental magpie robin (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|Oriental magpie robin

File:Taiga flycatcher (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|Taiga flycatcher

File:Rufous treepie (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|Rufous treepie

File:Golden flameback woodpecker (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park).jpg|Golden flameback woodpecker

File:Sambar, Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park.jpg|Sambar

File:An Elephant Family at Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park, Patna, Bihar, India.jpg|Elephant

File:Rhino at rest.jpg|Rhinoceros

File:Leopard Patna Zoo.JPG|Leopard

File:Swan Patna Zoo.JPG|Swan

File:Lion Patna Zoo.JPG|Lion

File:Central Lake at Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park, Patna (Bihar, India).jpg|Central Lake in the zoo

File:Monkey patna zoo.JPG|Monkey

• List of botanical gardens in India
• Patna
• Eco Park, Patna

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