Research

The Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, Visakhapatnam has the history of breeding of Wild dogs in captivity with wild captured specimens from 1992 onwards till 2006 with the stock of 12 (6:6). In the year 2006, Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, Visakhapatnam has got sanction of the Small Grants Fellowship for initiating research activities from Central Zoo Authority, New Delhi with an objective “to study the reproductive biology, breeding behavior, enrichment needs of the Wild dogs in captivity and observation on growth and cub development in captivity”.