aurangabad two bengal tigers in the city zoo may soon be shifted to a zoo in madhya pradesh due to space crunch the municipal administration will placed a proposal before the general body meeting scheduled on thursday animal husbandry officer in the aurangabad municipal corporation amc b s naikwade said that under the animal exchange programme a pair of bengal tigers would be handed over to mukundpur zoo in rewa in madhya pradesh the siddhartha garden zoo is home to nine bengal tigers and three white tigers sources in the zoo told toi that since many days the zoo officials are looking forward to shift some of the tigers as they are falling short of space the authorities are also struggling to feed tigers and leopards in the back drop of the recent decision of the maharashtra government to ban slaughter of bulls and bullocks that eventually triggered the prices of beef the zoo authorities that were spending about rs 35 lakh per month on beef till recent past are now have to double the budget as the prices in local markets have gone up from rs 85 per kg to rs 185 per kg said a source apart from this the city zoo may soon get a pair of leopards we have sought the permission of the central zoo authority cza to bring one male and one female leopard from hemalkasa in gadchiroli district in the state said naikwade