Rohtak Zoo

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

Female antelope grazing at Rohtak mini zoo

Horse mascot at Tilyar lake complex Inside Mini Zoo

Rohtak Mini Zoo offers a structured, fun and hands-on learning environment for kids.

Rohtak mini zoo provides a tremendous opportunity and space for children to play and learn.

The Tilyar Zoo at Rohtak is 42 km from Delhi border and the zoo is well maintained.^[1][2] Fishing is permissible at Tilyar Lake after paying ₹200 (US$2.40) fishing fee.^[3]

Mini zoo

Pelican enclosure at Rohtak Mini Zoo

Enclosure at Tilyar Mini Zoo along with 'Please do not feed animals sign'

Crocodile inscription at Mini Zoo

Antelope enclosure at Mini Zoo

A child intrigued by a model of a Black Francolin, the state bird of Haryana

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]

• Tiger
• Leopard
• Fox
• Hyena
• Wolf
• Gharial
• Mugger
• Jackal
• Otter
• Pig-tailed monkey
• Baboon
• Bonnet macaque
• Gray langur
• Sambhar
• Blackbuck
• Chinkara
• Indian hog deer
• Barking deer
• Guineafowl
• Silver pheasant
• Fantail pigeon
• Cockatiel
• Zebra finch

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 Zoo 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).

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