Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde met Patel at his official residence in Gandhinagar on Wednesday to seek approval for the transfer. A media statement said the meeting was positive and that Patel had asked. Mumbai’s Byculla Zoo prepares to receive four Asiatic lions from Gujarat’s Sakkarbaug Zoological Park under an agreed exchange. Asiatic lions are set to return to Byculla Zoo after 12 years under a proposed exchange with Junagadh’s Sakkarbaug Zoo.