A JUNGLE IN THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT

Written By: Abubakar Umar Lamido (SMS/10/MAC/00826)

There are places in Kano where you can go and forget the busy life of the city. Audu Bako Zoological Garden is one of few. The Environment of the Zoo is covered in green with beautiful tall trees and a cool Atmosphere. It is a home of different animals, birds and reptiles. With 58 different species consisting of over 300 animals. The zoo is owned and controlled by the government of Kano state. It was established around 1967 to 1975 by then governor Kano state Alhaji Audu Bako which whom the zoo was named after him.

A resident veterinary doctor is always busy  there moving around to prevent diseases and treat the animals on sick bed. However, preventions are on the line to make the environment conducive for the animals living there. Employed workers make some efforts to prevent the animals from diseases such as fumigation, to take care of the parasites on the grasses and the soil.

Some visible animals and bird include:lions,zebra,hyena,giraffe,parrot,geese,ducks,snakes,crocodile,elephant,pig sand monkeys.
One visitor Alhaji Musa knows and love them all. ''I cant just say one animal is most important or interesting, i think all the animals are interesting''.

The zoo welcomed students from nursery to universities level as visitors on excursion. Also students from research institutions went there to conduct there researches, while some categories of people just go pleasure and fun. The zoo counts a large  number of visitors during the seasonal celebrities such as sallah festival and Christmas periods.

A research has shown that there are categories of animals which are closely related to human beings, they resembles human beings. The monkeys and the eaves. They are really man's closets relation. The genetics make - up of the chimpanzee is more than 90% similar to that man, so they are very close related animals to man. The baboon, also from the monkey jungle use to give birth to it's young ones like the humans use to do. It also treat it's young ones almost exactly like man.

The monkeys use to wave there hands to visitors and make a voiced abstract sound to show there happiness to the visitors. The animals are locked in steel cages.  Other dangerous animals are also kept inside a special steel cages locked with special keys and special attention is kept on them by the authorities  so that they cannot make harm to people.

The zoo is a treasure to be discovered a jewel in the centre of Kano state