LAHORE: The wild deer (Sambar) caught in a Narowal village was shifted to the Lahore Zoo Safari, its director Muhammad Shafqat said on Thursday.

The safari now has four sambar deer and the one brought from Narowal has been kept in a rehabilitation enclosure which is a secluded one. It can harm those which are in captive breeding, he said.

He said it would go under a quarantine period and would be released with other animals if found healthy. Two other deer had previously been caught from the wild, he said. He said often sambar deer crossed over to Pakistan along the Kashmir foothills.

He said the Safari would soon have more animals and public facilities had been improved.

Published in Dawn, December 21st, 2018