born and brought up in chennai ramya subramanians love affair with the city goes back a long way though shes travelled all over the globe for her theres nothing like being in chennai everything about the city is so close to my heart she smiles while she loves the city ramya had a tiny regret that she still hasnt been to the arignar anna zoological park or as it is popularly known vandalur zoo and when we suggested the idea of taking her to the vandalur zoo she was thrilled to bits now that people can adopt animals in the zoo the vjturnedactress too wanted to do her bit by adopting an animal taking a stroll through the zoo with ct ramya gets candid about meeting the animals in the zoo chennais love for animals and morelove for animalsi love dogs and love other pets but i had this regret that i still havent been to vandalur zoo not all cities have a zoo right so i have had this urge to visit the zoo for a while now my mother told me that i had visited the place once when i was a kid but i dont even have the faintest memory of the same now i am happy to have visited the zoo with chennai times for their flirtwithyourcity campaign and of course i am even more excited about the zoos adoption campaign through which the public can adopt one of the animals in the zoo says ramya why ramya adopted a thevangu though ramya was initially keen on adopting a lion or a tiger or her fave chimpanzee a discussion with the deputy director of the zoo changed her mind and she adopted the slender loris or thevangu as it is called in tamil we have heard a lot about it but not many even know how it looks like the authorities told me that this animal which belongs to the monkey family is on its way to extinction it is abused too it is hunted down by practioners of black magic nobody gives any attention to the fact that their number in our country is now very minimal this is one of the reasons why i decided to adopt it and take care of its food and other needs says ramyawhy adoption matters ramya who adopted a slender loris at the zoo during our trip feels that people should try and adopt animals it is only a small amount that you spend on adopting an animal and i urge people to do the same as animals are our treasure it is our duty to look after them and safeguard them as they dont have anyone else she saysramyas experience in the zoo ramya loves chimpanzees and their den is where we first headed to i saw both the male and female chimpanzees coming out of their cavelike shelter drenching in water reacting to whatever i said and simply goofing around when i asked the animal