Click to play videoLucknow: After a gruelling 2,500 km journey from Mysore to Lucknow, the Lucknow Zoo is now Jesan and Nikita's new home. But the two chimpanzees do not seem to be enjoying their stay even a little.
"I think it will take them one or two days to adopt to the new environment,” says Director, Lucknow Zoo, Eva Sharma.
Zookeepers say Jesan and Nikita are homesick. They find themselves surrounded by strangers who speak only in Hindi. And it takes Kannada to calm them down.
But Yama, the man who has come all the way from Karnataka to drop them to Lucknow, will return to Mysore soon.
"Gradually we feel we will be able to teach the animals to understand Hindi which we speak, our caretakers speak. Initially we can talk to them by gestures,” says Sharma.
As for now, the two chimpanzees are getting the nawabi hospitality.
“They also had tea enroute to Lucknow," says Sharma.
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