@Summer Tanager for comparison, from 2007-2023, these held chital, fallow, hog, red and sika deer, nilgai, blackbuck and chinkara.
Before that the zoo's zebras and addaxes used to be housed here back when the hog deer occupied one half of the hill currently home to markhor and hybrid wild goat and the blackbucks weren't yet part of the collection.
The zebras would eventually move to a mixed exhibit with giraffes for a while (one of the giraffes would die after being kicked by a zebra) before being moved to the paddocks at the southern end of the zoo (currently housing gemsbok, blesbok and ostriches but at the time would've held, in addition to ostriches, a cassowary, dromedary and bactrian camels, llamas and domestic yak), before leaving the collection in 2023. The addax would eventually leave for Lahore Safari Zoo, before being brought back in 2023.
Thank you for all of that background! I find it interesting to see how hoofstock populations change over time - it's much more dynamic than the gradual changes that occur in carnivore populations. The Lahore Zoo has a relatively large collection and diversity of hoofed animals compared to the average zoo. I would love to see Chinkara some day! I don't think there are any outside of India and Pakistan.
