Assam Zoo and Botanical Garden

• Living conditions and sanitation are abysmal.
• Security is so lax that poachers once entered the Indian rhino's enclosure and nearly killed him.
• Two elephants were each chained by three of their legs.
• A white African rhino - who has been living alone for 36 years - has an injury above his horn from banging his head on the wall of the enclosure. The boundary wall of his enclosure is broken, allowing intruders to enter freely.
• The pond in the hippopotamus enclosure was fetid and dirty, and the enclosure is too small to house four animals.
• The enclosures in which monkeys were caged alone were filthy and smelled of urine.
• The lion enclosure was filthy and contained rotten meat and bones.
• A bear kept in a barren enclosure showed stereotypical, neurotic behaviours by pacing up and down. He was missing much of his fur, and his face was covered with fleas and ticks.
• Two other bears had very dirty water in the moat around their enclosure.
• A vulture caged alone had very little water in his enclosure.
• A peacock was kept alone in a small cage, with no protection from visitors who pulled feathers from his tail.
• Visitors were able to reach inside the Mynah bird's cage.
• More than four adult birds of prey were housed together in the same small enclosure which did not have any enrichment.

Although they have a large enclosure, the elephants are chained by three legs and cannot roam.

This rhino has been alone in his enclosure for 36 years and developed this wound from banging his head against the wall in frustration.

The hippo enclosure is far too small for the four hippos living here, and it is filthy and stinking.

This monkey is kept isolated in an enclosure.

The lions' pit is a graveyard of bones that obviously has not been cleaned in a very long time. Visitors can smell the stench from a viewing platform high above the pit.

This bear has ticks all over his eyes and face. Patches of his fur are also missing.