A video theatre and a wildlife library will also be introduced at the park once the animals are shifted to the 200-acre open zoo at Katraj. The rain has delayed the shifting work. Located five km from the Swargate state transport bus depot on the Pune-Satara highway, the zoo is expected to become a tourists' attraction.

Pushpkumar, the chief architect of the famous open zoo at Hyderabad, who has been given the contract for preparing the design of the Katraj zoo, will visit the site in the first week of November and have a series of meetings towards the shifting.

``We have completed the compound wall, internal road and dug trenches for the open cages for elephants, deer, monkeys and bears,'' Khaire said adding that only after the animals are shifted, they would be able to correspond with other zoos to procure hippopotamus, rhinoceros and rare deer species.