Maharajbaug Zoo

• The zoo is located in the Nagpur University compound. When investigators asked for pamphlets and any information about the zoo, they were told to get the university to print it. The director of the zoo was unavailable.
• Predator and prey species, like leopards and sambars, are kept in enclosures that are near each other.
• The enclosures are too small, and most of them are full of debris and dirt.
• Most of the enclosures are barren, without grass or any other enrichment.
• The spotted deer enclosure was littered with trash.
• The leopard, bear and monkey enclosures are all barren and have no enrichment at all. They have hard floors and dark, dingy retiring cubicles. The drinking-water pools were dry.
• The peacock enclosure pool was dry.
• The jackal lives alone in a dark, dingy enclosure. He runs neurotically from one end of the cage to the other, tries to climb the wall, falls backwards and repeats this behaviour. There is hardly any sunlight in this cage, and there is no enrichment whatsoever.
• The enclosures where the birds and rabbits are kept are poorly maintained. They are made of cement substrate which is covered with boulders and stones. There are no trees for the birds to perch on, and food was strewn about the dirty, wet floors.

The leopard enclosure's substrate is slushy and full of stones. The walls and the entrance are covered with moss.

There is a plastic packet inside the spotted deer enclosure.

One jackal with stereotypic behaviour is kept in a cement enclosure in a corner of the zoo.

These two emus live in a cage which contains big boulders, a bucket for drinking water and a rusted bowl with food in it.