Jodhpur Zoo

• Nearly all the enclosures are barren, with little or no enrichment.
• Little security is in place to protect animals from being harassed by visitors.
• Few measures are in place to protect animals from extreme heat.
• Most cages have concrete floors and have little natural vegetation or greenery.
• The leopard enclosure is completely barren, with insufficient shade and no trees for the leopard to perch or climb on.
• The bear shelter has no grass, greenery or vegetation; it is concrete and barren. The bears are unable to swim in the meagre pool of water provided.
• The houbara bustard is kept in an enclosure with a concrete and dirt floor which does not have any enrichment. Food was strewn all over the floor.
• Both enclosures for the parakeets and the love birds are extremely crowded and do not have enough space for the birds to fly around. There is no enrichment.
• The pheasant enclosures were littered with plastic and iron buckets.
• One large enclosure has no sign to indicate which species are housed within. Multiple species of birds were observed, but no identification was provided. The water pool was very dirty and almost dried up. The drinking water provided for the animals was in small concrete tubs which were fully exposed to the sun. The water likely quickly becomes too hot to drink.
• The star tortoise enclosure has one small bowl of water, which all the tortoises crowded around.
• Incongruously, there is a slaughterhouse on the premises of the zoo. At the time of inspection, two buffaloes were awaiting slaughter.

Visitors climb the wall to sit at the window of the tiger enclosure.

The fan in the enclosure where the lion and lioness are incarcerated is not turned on. The investigator visited the zoo around 2:30 p.m., when the desert heat was intense.

The enclosure for the lion and lioness does not have any enrichment.

This extremely crowded bird enclosure does not have any enrichment for the birds.

This is the enclosure for the star tortoise.