Guest bird image

The first and foremost objective of the fair is the raising awareness about safety of birds and the maintaining bio-diversity of the country. Vice Chancellor of the university Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir inaugurated the fair as chief guest on this morning while Pro VC of JU Prof Dr Mohammad Farhad Hossain spoke the function as special guest.

Among others, Dr Mofizul Kabir and Dr Abdus Salam, professors of department of Zoology and Prof Dr Atikur Rahman of History department of JU spoke the fair.

Guest bird in Bangladesh

Hundreds of bird- loving people thronged the JU campus spending time amid chirping sound of birds in the fair.

The department of Zoology and Wildlife Rescue Centre (WRC) jointly organized the fair to mark less number of arrivals of the migratory birds at JU lakes and Dhaka's sky.

Guest bird

Bangladesh's authorities have culled about 13,000 chickens so far this year following fresh outbreak of bird flu last month, officials said Monday. Ataur Rahman, a government's bird flu control room official, told Xinhua Monday, "Some 12,789 chickens were culled so far this year after detecting avian influenza in some commercial farms." Of total, he said, "Some 9,526 birds, including 8,821 in a commercial firm in Dhaka, were culled in the first week of this month." Fresh outbreak of bird flu was detected in Bangladesh in January with arrival of winter season when the authorities said that they culled 3,263 chickens in three commercial farms

Turtle picture

The forest department with the help of CARINAM, a research centre, recently rescued seven Olove Ridley marine turtles from poachers in Rupsha, Khulna, and released them in the sea. Fishermen caught the turtles for human consumption. Photo Courtesy CARINAM

An Elephant sanctuary at Punnathur kotta

Africa's first official reserve, Kruger National Park, eventually became one of the world's most famous and successful national parks. There are, however, many problems associated with the establishment of these reserves. For example, elephants range through a wide tract of land with little regard for national borders. Once a reserve is established and fence erected, many animals find themselves cut off from their winter feeding grounds or spring breeding areas. Some animals may die as a result, while others, like the elephants, may just trample over the fences, wreaking havoc in nearby fields. When confined to small territories, elephants can inflict an enormous amount of damage to the local landscapes.

Elephant mating behaviour

The mating season is short and females are only able to conceive for a few days each year. She will detach herself from the herd. The scent of the female (cow) elephant in heat (or estrus) attracts the male and she also uses audible signals to attract the male. As the female can usually outrun the male, she does not have to mate with every male that approaches her.The male initiates the courtship and the female ignores him for several minutes. He then stops and starts again. Elephants display a range of affectionate interactions, such as nuzzling, trunk intertwining, and placing their trunks in each other's mouths.

Elephant crossing a river

African elephants are distinguished from Asian elephants in several ways, the most noticeable being their much larger ears. In addition, the African elephant is typically larger than the Asian elephant and has a concave back. In Asian elephants only males have tusks, but both males and females of African elephants have tusks and are usually less hairy than their Asian cousins.

Physical difference between an Asian (left) and African (right) elephant.

The African Elephant genus contains two (or, arguably, three) living species; whereas the Asian Elephant species is the only surviving member of the Asian Elephant genus, but can be divided into four subspecies. The African and the Asian elephant diverged from a common ancestor some 7.6 million years ago.

Female Asian elephant with calf

Healthy adult elephants have no natural predators, although lions may take calves or weak individuals. They are, however, increasingly threatened by human intrusion and poaching. Once numbering in the millions, the African elephant population has dwindled to between 470,000 and 690,000 individuals according to a March 2007 estimate.While the elephant is a protected species worldwide, with restrictions in place on capture, domestic use, and trade in products such as ivory, there has been an increase in poaching in recent years, perhaps attributable to the CITES reopening of "one time" ivory stock sales. Certain African nations report a decrease of their elephant populations by as much as two-thirds, and populations in even some protected areas are in danger of being eliminated Since recent poaching has increased by as much as 45%, the current population is unknown (2008).

An African Bush Elephant

The elephant has appeared in cultures across the world. They are a symbol of wisdom in Asian cultures and are famed for their memory and intelligence, where they are thought to be on par with cetaceans and hominids.Aristotle once said the elephant was "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind". The word "elephant" has its origins in the Greek ἐλέφας, meaning "ivory" or "elephant". An African Bush Elephant near the border of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania.

Elephants are used to entertain tourists at some beaches as at Havelock Island

War elephants were used by armies in the Indian sub-continent, the Warring States of China, and later by the Persian Empire. This use was adopted by Hellenistic armies after Alexander the Great experienced their worth against King Porus, notably in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid diadoch empires. The Carthaginian general Hannibal took elephants across the Alps when he was fighting the Romans, but brought too few elephants to be of much military use, although his horse cavalry was quite successful; he probably used a now-extinct third African (sub)species, the North African (Forest) elephant, smaller than its two southern cousins, and presumably easier to domesticate. A large elephant in full charge could cause tremendous damage to infantry, and cavalry horses would be afraid of them (see Battle of Hydaspes).

African bush elephant in Mikumi National Park

African elephants are distinguished from Asian elephants in several ways, the most noticeable being their much larger ears. In addition, the African elephant is typically larger than the Asian elephant and has a concave back. In Asian elephants only males have tusks, but both males and females of African elephants have tusks and are usually less hairy than their Asian cousins.The Forest elephant and the Savanna elephant can also hybridise though their preferences for different terrains reduce such opportunities. As the African elephant has only recently been recognized to comprise two separate species, groups of captive elephants have not been comprehensively classified and some could well be hybrids.

Elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka

The world population of Asian elephants—also called Indian Elephants—is estimated to be around 60,000, about a tenth of the number of African elephants. More precisely, it is estimated that there are between 38,000 and 53,000 wild elephants and between 14,500 and 15,300 domesticated elephants in Asia with perhaps another 1,000 scattered around zoos in the rest of the world. The Asian elephants' decline has possibly been more gradual than the African and caused primarily by poaching and habitat destruction by human encroachment.

Baby Elephant

A new calf is usually the centre of attention for herd members. Adults and most of the other young will gather around the newborn, touching and caressing it with their trunks. The baby is born nearly blind and at first relies almost completely on its trunk to discover the world around it. A calf that weighs about 115 kg (250 lb) and stand over 75 cm (2.5 ft) tall.

Elephant is walking

Elephants are the largest land animals now living. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kilograms. They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This male weighed about 12,000 kilograms , with a shoulder height of 4.2 metres (14 ft), a metre (yard) taller than the average male African elephant. The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.

Elephant stands in water

Elephants are large land mammals in two genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta. Three species of elephant are living today: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant . All other species and genera of Elephantidae are extinct, some since the last ice age: dwarf forms of mammoths may have survived as late as 2,000 BC. Elephants and other Elephantidae were once classified with other thick-skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata.

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Royal Bengal Tiger

Bangladesh being one of the most densely populated countries in the world and hence the immense pressure for both residential and agricultural land, the protected area has its own share of troubles. Some of the species in the forest are becoming extinct, while the number of Royal Bengal Tigers has dwindled to just above 500 today.As for the Indian side of this thriving and vibrant Mangrove forest, it’s far better protected, and with the Tiger being the national animal, all efforts are being made to ensure its numbers start growing again.

National animal in Bangladesh

The range of animal life on view here is almost unparalleled in its complexity as you can find varieties of crocodiles, single-horned rhinos, sharks, freshwater dolphins, an astonishing array of birds of prey, a variety of fishes, shelled- sea life, Indian flap-shelled turtles, peacock soft-shelled turtles, Javan rhinoceros, Swamp deer and of course the famous Royal Bengal Tiger. Considering such abundance of wildlife, it is a spot that no nature lover could afford to miss.

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The range of animal life on view here is almost unparalleled in its complexity as you can find varieties of crocodiles, single-horned rhinos, deer, sharks, freshwater dolphins, an astonishing array of birds of prey, a variety of fishes, shelled- sea life, Indian flap-shelled turtles, peacock soft-shelled turtles, Javan rhinoceros, Swamp deer and of course the famous Royal Bengal Tiger. Considering such abundance of wildlife, it is a spot that no nature lover could afford to miss.

Royal Bengal Tiger Rested

Highly adaptable, tigers range from the Siberian taiga, to open grasslands, to tropical mangrove swamps. They are territorial and generally solitary animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey demands. This, coupled with the fact that they are endemic to some of the more densely populated places on earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans. Of the nine subspecies of modern tiger, three are extinct and the remaining six are classified as endangered, some critically so. The primary direct causes are habitat destruction and fragmentation, and hunting.

Royal Bengal Tiger is swiming

The tiger is a member of the Felidae family; the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia, the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. Reaching up to 3.3 metres in total length and weighing up to 300 kilograms, the larger tiger subspecies are comparable in size to the biggest extinct felids. Aside from their great bulk and power, their most recognisable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes that overlays near-white to reddish-orange fur, with lighter underparts. The most numerous tiger subspecies is the Bengal tiger while the largest subspecies is the Siberian tiger.

Royal Bengal Tiger stand in water

Living largely secretive life and attacking preys using stealth, cunning and agility, a tiger is mostly considered a villain. Moreover, the man-eaters in India have further maligned the image of a tiger. Not much is still known about the lives of the tigers in the wild and hence a lot of the information considered as ‘facts’ about tigers are merely informed guesses. Since the chance of encountering a tiger in the wild is way less than the chance of encountering a wild lion, a lot of data about tigers reflect either only a small population of them, or are based on indirect studies, or both. Also, a tiger’s unwillingness to fight without necessity has often been seen as lack of courage and aggression.

Royal Bengal Tiger is coming action

The big cat was found dead beside a pond in the southern Sundarbans forest, where it apparently came to quench its thirst.
The Independent reports the dead tiger was examined by a veterinary officer, who determined that it died of excessive heat.
The Divisional Forest Officer of the Sundarbans Forest Division, Shahidullah, told the newspaper that such a death among tigers had never been seen before.
A 2004 census found about 280 Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh. An estimated 2,500 live in neighboring India, where conservation efforts have allowed their numbers to more than double since the 1970s.