Finally, The zoo.

Humans have an insatiable fascination with wild animals. Every year, millions of people go on safaris, watch Jeff Corwin get attacked by snakes on Animal Planet; others drive to their local zoo for a full day of animal gazing. This interest in animals is nothing new: Zoos have been entertaining people with exotic animal collections from a really long time.

Zoos have improved significantly in the last few years. Gone are the days where old steel-bar enclosures and cold cement cages were used. The Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad, use natural-looking barriers like moats or ditches to separate animals from people, and have mini-habitats that resemble the animal’s natural environment.  Although zoo animals aren't treated quite like guests at a five-star hotel, their care has improved tremendously.

For a small fee, visitors would be treated to glimpses of animals like lions, tigers, elephants, snakes and many more. Zoos are either sanctuaries of education and entertainment or unnecessary prisons. While some people argue that zoos play an important role in conservation and research, others counter that they do more harm than good.

My visit to Nehru Zoological Park:

It is located in the outskirts of Hyderabad. It has a variety of living creatures. Be it a lion, hyena, deer, tiger, cheetah or anything; say it and you find it there. There are different closures which have different species that include ostrich, black buck, bison, chimpanzees, gorillas, reptiles and many more.

It was a treat to my eyes to watch these creatures play, eat, stare (though most of them were busy sleeping :/ ) But end of the day, when I left the zoo in the evening, I left with a pleasant memory of birds, animals and reptiles which are also creations of God and which have a right to live with us in this wonderful world.

Man owes a duty to protect all the other living creatures as he protects himself. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.