දෙහිවල සත්තු වත්ත

  දෙහිවල සත්තු වත්ත

ඉතිහාසය

Sri Lanka has a history of collecting and keeping wild animals as pets by some සිංහල kings as well as some British people. What is known today as National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka was founded by John Hagenbeck in the late 1920s. It was closed at beginning of world war II in 1939 because of the owner of that company was a German. After liquidation of Zoological Garden Company in 1936, the government acquired much of the collection and added it to the Dehiwala Zoo (Zoological Garden of Ceylon) collection. Although Dehiwala Zoo officially began operating in 1939, an impressive animal collection already existed there as part of Hagenback company's holding area, where public could visit.
Major Aubrey Weinman was the first Director of the Dehiwal Zoo. During his period various programs were developed, such as introducing more native and foreign species, educational and conservation programs, improving the facilities and infrastructures and more.
By 1969, half of the collection consisted of native species including virtually all of the ක්ෂීරපායින් represented. In 1973, the zoo had 158 mammal species, 259 bird species, 56 උරග species and 7 මත්ස්‍යන් species. However, not much has been reported on Zoo progress until 1980s.

සත්වෝද්‍යානය

Dehiwala Zoological Garden is one of the oldest zoological gardens in Asia. It has a substantial collection of worldwide animals. It is open all year long and can be reached by public transportation. Diversity of the zoo is indicated by the presence of an aquarium walk through aviary, උරග house, butterfly garden and many cages and enclosures.
The zoological garden has a small, but picturesque butterfly garden which is decorated with small shrubs, trees, creepers and small streams. Internal temperature and humidity of the house is controlled by artificially created mist. The butterfly garden exhibits 30 species of butterflies with their all stages of life cycle for educational purposes.

දෙහිවල සත්තු වත්තේ සිටින සතුන්
#	ප්‍රවර්ගය	විශේෂයන්	සංඛ්‍යාව
[1]	ක්‍ෂීරපායින්	100	450
[2]	කුරුල්ලන්	110	1000-1500
[3]	මත්ස්‍යන්	65	1000
[4]	උරගයින්	35	250
[5]	උභයජීවින්	3	20
[6]	සමනලුන්	30	100
[7]	සාමුද්‍රීය අපෘෂ්ඨවංශිකයන්	10	25

සත්වෝද්‍යාන භූ දර්ශනය

Dehiwala Zoo has been designed into a beautiful landscape of colourful flowers, foliage and water fountains, the zoological garden is probably one of the few remaining places in the country where nature blends with a large variety of animal life.
Colombo Zoo is famous for its huge tree cover and well landscaped garden. To provide more natural habitats some lawns of the Zoo have been converted into small forest patches which are rich in rare plants. Valuable medicinal plants are prominent among the trees in these patches.
The zoo consist of shady pathways with arched cemented bridges are classic ways to cross an animal enclosure although there are plenty of equal attractive alternatives.

සත්ව සංදර්ශණ

Elephant Performance
The elephant's performance are held at elephant arena with certain time table. Pachyderms in shows perform antics such standing on their heads, wiggling their backs to music, hopping on one foot and standing up on their hind legs.
Educational Programme on Chimps
One of the main attraction of Dehiwala Zoo is "Sanju" - a baby Chimpanzee. Sanju was hand raised and now its show is exerted as educational programme about the chimpanzee's behaviors . People can enjoy Saju's daily routine performances according to a time table.
Sea Loins' Performances
The sea lions' performance are displayed daily at the sea lions' pool according to a time table. Two Californian sea lions are fed by their keepers during this wonderful moment.

සතුන් පිළිබඳව

including ක්ෂීරපායින්, උරගයින්, කුරුල්ලන් and මත්ස්‍යන්. Every year the Zoo exchanges some of its animals with other Zoos worldwide to enlarge the diversity of its animals and introduce new species of animals as well.
Dehiwala's collection includes:

ක්ෂීරපායින් ඇතා-ආසියානු සහ අප්‍රිකානු දෙවර්ගයම Oryx තිත්මුවා විසල් බිළාලයන්-සිංහයා, දිවියා, ජගුවරා,කොටියා වලහා- Both Sloth and Brown Samba deer අග්‍රේෂයන්-ඔරංඔටං, චිම්පන්සි,ආදිය සීබ්‍රා ජිරාෆ් මුහුදු සිංහයා කඟවේනා හිපපොටේමස්

කුරුල්ලන් Pelicans Eagle Hawk Ostrich Macaws Owls Cormorants Egrets කැසෝවරි Swans - Both black and white Old World vulture Peacock

උරගයින් Anaconda Cobra Pit viper Python Cat snakes Eastern green mamba Krait Rinkhals Crocodiles -Dwarf, Estuarine, Mugger,Gharial Beaded lizard Turtles Iguana

අළුත් සත්ව වර්ග

The table contains introduction of new animal species which has been reported by the Zoo administration to the public medias. The number of introduced and new born animal species can be changed with the time due to death, animal exchanges with other zoos and some unavoidable circumstances.