Thiruvananthapuram Zoo, Munnar

Thiruvananthapuram Zoo, Munnar (India)

The Thiruvananthapuram Zoo is located in the city of Thiruvananthapuram the capital of Kerala India. It occupies 55 acres of woodland lakes and lawns. Thiruvananthapuram Zoo is one of the oldest zoos in India. Similarly the Museum and Botanical Gardens are also one of the oldest of their kind in the country. Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma the ruler of Travancore during 18301846 was the visionary behind the establishment of the Thiruvananthapuram Museum and Zoo. He had a broad variety of animals including elephants in his horse breeding center. In the Trivandrum stables he incorporated a menagerie and kept tigers panthers cheetahs deer bears and a lioness there.