Liger at Natal Zoological Gardens, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

A Liger Zoo in South Africa is operating with a branded name of Natal Zoological Gardens or Natal Zoo Gardens. This Liger Zoo is located at Pietermaritzburg area of South Africa. If you are living in South Africa and you are keenly interested in having a real time experience with a liger, then Natal Zoological Gardens is your best choice as a liger Zoo. The exact address of this liger zoo is “Natal Zoological Gardens, Lion Park Road Camper Town KwaZulu – Natal 3730, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa”. Apart from ligers, this liger zoo has at least 45 species of other animals and also has other exotic big cats which include lions, tigers, leopards, and other felines.

Natal Zoological Gardens in South Africa is also classified as a Liger Zoo in our global tracking of the ligers. Photo Courtesy of www.ligerworld.com

Currently this liger zoo has only one liger at Pietermaritzburg. The name of this liger is Deliha the liger. Deliah the liger is a male liger and whether this liger is born at this liger zoo, it still remains a big mystery and a big question mark. However; if we take a look at the weight of this liger, it weighs around 800 to 850 pounds in weight. According to many witnesses, this liger is shy of public and cameras, and it rarely comes near the fence boundaries of its enclosure. As a result of that, the visitors are unable to take much of the snapshots about this liger at Natal Zoological Gardens. According to the owners of the zoos, this liger zoo is the only Zoo across African continent to have liger at its zoo premises. However; in our study about ligers presence in zoos, we did witness that a male liger also lived in Libyan capital Tripoli. Therefore; this claim of the Natal Zoological Garden Liger Zoo might not be true for Africa.

Deliha the Liger at Natal Zoological Gardens in South Africa. Photo Courtesy of gwzoo.org

Natal Zoological Garden is not that much famous around the world. This liger zoo hardly has any website, where visitors can visit and get information about liger. We at Liger Zoos website only came to know about this zoo through word of mouth and online blogging writings of the individuals. It does look like this Liger Zoo is relatively new in terms of its establishment and it will be a matter of time before this liger zoo will create its reasonable information presence online.

The liger at Natal Zoological Gardens in South Africa has not gained a reasonable global popularity. Photo Courtesy of www.ligerworld.com

The liger at this liger zoo is kept in an enclosure that is shared with white tigers. Among the photographs which we have seen about this liger, this liger (Delilha the Liger) looks very healthy in terms of its health. He looks well-fed and he also looks properly cared as well. All the enclosures at this liger zoo are safe for the visitors and visitors can easily see the ligers and other big cats and also take photographs of the animals being present at the zoo. Medical Staff is also available and several volunteers are also part of this liger zoo which are always very cooperative with the visitors.

Deliha the Liger at its enclosure at Natal Zoological Gardens in South Africa. Photo Courtesy of www.ligerworld.com

The only core liger related event at this liger zoo will be the discovery of the liger itself. South Africa is long known to always have ligers at their zoos. However; currently this is the only liger in South Africa and possibly within the continent of Africa. Because of this liger being the only liger across Africa, this liger can still make a huge news buzz in the world and several international news agencies will love to quote this liger within their storylines as well.

The discovery and the presence of the liger at Natal Zoological Gardens during 2014, was the most important event related to this Liger Zoo. Photo Courtesy of www.ligerworld.com

Overall this liger zoo looks to be a perfect place to spot and experience a liger. Apart from liger you will be amazed to see other animals as well in this liger zoo. The Zoo also claims to have some rarest felines from Madagascar Island as well which further increases the worth of this liger zoo as well. There are no reviews about this Natal Zoological Garden (Liger Zoo) on famous tourists’ websites such as tripadvisor.com and yelp.com. Therefore; this zoo needs to increase its focus on these websites and create more awareness on social media platform as well.

Come and Visit Natal Zoological Gardens for an ideal experience with a Liger. Photo Courtesy of www.ligerworld.com

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