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On wedding anniversary, city couple donates 2 lakh for endangered zoo monkeys
At a time when couples are celebrating wedding anniversaries splurging lakhs of rupees on parties and foreign trips, a couple from St Thomas Mount celebrated by adopting the lion-tailed macaques and Nilgiri langurs at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park and contributed Rs 2 lakh to the zoo officials here on Wednesday.
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Kannan Parthasarathy and his wife T Gayathri came up with the idea after their son Keshav suggested they do something different for their anniversary. “We are a family of animal lovers and when my son came up with this idea, we immediately agreed,” Kannan said.
On Wednesday, the family came to the zoo and adopted 21 lion-tailed macaques and 18 Nilgiri langurs. Deputy director at the zoological park Sudha Raman said, “We are happy to see people coming forward to adopt animals. This should set an example to others.”
Both the lion-tailed macaque and Nilgiri langur are critically endangered species indigenous to the tropical rain forests of the Western Ghats. The contributions by Kannan and his family would be used for the animals’ food and maintenance.
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