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Animals Used for Entertainment// India's Zoos: A Grim ReportHutatma Bagh Prani Sanghralaya Zoo
Solapur, Maharashtra
July 2005
- Nearly all the enclosures are small and barren and do not have any enrichment.
- No clean water or fresh food was observed in any of the enclosures.
- Nearly all the enclosures were poorly maintained.
- Some animals and birds appeared to be unhealthy, and visitors could be seen feeding them inappropriate food.
- The pigeons, rabbits, geese, ducks, turkeys and bustards are kept in concrete cages with cement substrates which are damp, dirty and strewn with food and other rubbish.
- No educational material is available.

Fourteen geese, 14 ducks and three peacocks are kept together in the same dilapidated enclosure.

Note the condition of the wire netting in the enclosure for the geese, ducks and peacocks.

Thirty pigeons and 10 rabbits are kept in this enclosure with damp cement flooring and no environmental enrichment. Half the enclosure has a tarpaulin cover when it rains.

The water tank in the rabbit and pigeon enclosure has very dirty water.
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