squeals of delight rung in the air as excited kids craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the colourful display of exotic birds from africa australia china and other countries at the ongoing exhibition in the city titled world of pets species including arkari toucans stellas african parrots multicoloured conures palmsized love birds and finches apart from a variety of pigeons rabbits iguanas ducks and an emu put on a great show at the bhavans nature and adventure centre in andheri more than 20 mini aquaria decorated with real plants highlighted the message to avoid plastics persian cats and chihuahuas relaxed in spacious airconditioned tents specially constructed for them the exhibition which began on friday will close today the aim is to spread awarenessthe centre works at spreading awareness as well as rescuing birds animals and pets in distress this is the first time they have organised an exhibition on this scale himanshu prem joshi administrator at the centre says the birds are from various countries and are owned by people we know we wanted to get them here for those mumbaikars who cannot go abroad to see them apart from this we wanted to spread awareness about how to handle pets and address issues related to thema delight for kidsspread across a massive green patch the natural environs were the perfect setting for the exhibition with the summer vacations on families and kids took this as a rare opportunity not to be missed sarita singh a homemaker from santacruz who was visiting with her two small kids ankush 2 and nisha 4 says that she always wanted to introduce them to the world of birds animals and nature from an early age ive introduced both of them to nature ever since they were babies as the earlier they learn the easier it is to mould their thinking they now love to read about birds and animals and also watch programmes on tv related to the same im sure it will make a difference in their attitude towards nature and preserving it she says its all about loving naturea green corner was full of animal lovers who were eager to get tips as regular sessions were held with professionals talking about caring for your pet what made it interesting was that they had the pet on display as they spoke about it kids were encouraged to pet them hold them and even talk to them while asking queries if they had anyashok kirtane who was enjoying the exhibition with his two young boys amar 8 and ankit 6 says my sons love animals and we recently allowed them to get two dogs at home we brought the dogs only on the condition that the boys would care for them we got to know that the exhibition has a workshop on how to care for your pets a professional talking about pet care made all the difference and we also got a lot of our queries resolvedfun