 The park was initially run by an honorary managing committee which included Schwendler and the famous botanist George King.The first Indian superintendent of the zoo was Ram Brahma Sanyal, who did much to improve the standing of the Alipore Zoo and achieved good captive breeding success in an era when such initiatives were rarely heard of.One such success story of the zoo was a live birth of the rare Sumatran rhinoceros in 1889.