Living World Botanical Garden Zoological Park Museums

Living World

(Botanical Garden, Zoological Park, Museums)

Botanical Gardens: The place where different varieties of plants are grown, collected, and preserved from different parts of the world for scientific study and labelled them according to their botanical as well as common name is called as "Botanical Garden". Example: Indian Botanical Garden at Hawrah in India.

1) Question: Which is most famous botanical garden in world?

Ans: Royal Botanic Garden in Kew, England.

Question: 2) Which is biggest botanical garden in India?

Ans: Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose(Kolkata) Indian Botanic Garden.

3) Question: Which is famous botanical garden in India?

Ans:

1) Indian Botanical Garden,

Kolkata.

2) National Botanical Garden,Lucknow .

3)Lalbagh or The Mysore State Botanical Garden,Banglore.

4) Botanical Garden of Forest Research Institute,Dehradun.

5)Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling.

4) Question: Which is smallest botanical garden in India?

Ans: Kohli Memorial Himalayan Garden.

            

Fig : Botanical Garden Kolkata 255 years old Banyan Tree.

ZOOLOGICAL PARK: The place where wild animals are kept or preserved in a safe and simple way just they live in jungles, forests,is called as "Zoological Parks"" or" Zoo".

Their proper care is taken in zoo ,a naturalist can study the food habits and behavior of animals.There are some tools for maintaining biodiversity records like Flora, manuals,monographs,and catlogue.

Flora is the plant life occuring in a particular area on time.A monograph describes any one selected biological group where as manual provides information ,keys about identification of species found in a particular area.

1) Question: Which is the biggest and oldest Zoological park in India?

Ans: Arignar Anna Zoological Park.

2) Question: Which is  smallest zoo in India?

Ans: Maharajbagh Zoo.

3) Question :How would we can maintain a zoologist park?

Ans: By providing animals natural condition to wild animals .A healthier diet should be given to them at regular and scheduled time to animals. And Zoological park should be in high hygienic condition.

4) Question: What are  the benefits of Zoological Parks?

Ans: Different species of animals can be found very easily.And a very rare animals are also present in Zoological park. Researchers can also get information about them very easily.

       Fig:Zoological Park

MUSEUMS: The place where collection of preserved plants and animals specimens are kept in safe way for thousands of years called as"Museums".

Plants and animals specimens may be preserved in formalin (10% to 40% formaldehyde) in transparent jars .Jars are labelled for better understanding according to their scientific as well as common name,Larger animals like birds and mammals are usually packed and preserved.

The art of preparing ,stuffing and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect is called as "Taxidermy".Some specimens are kept in dried form in museum. Museum contains systematic collections of shells ,skeletons of animals , skins ,insect boxes.

Biological museum to contain number of specimens from thousands of years which we haven't seen.Thus , museums help us to identify and give a lot of information about ancient period.

 Thus, biological museums in educational institutes are reference hubs of biodiversity studies.

         Fig: Biological Museum.