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This is an 18 month old lion named Michael found hanged to death in his cage. He was
suspended from the roof with steel wire. According to officials at the Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia
the hanging was an accident rather than neglect.
The zoos known by locals as the zoo of death because so many animals die there in extremely
poor conditions and neglect. In 2010, 25 animals died every single month. Included in the list
of dead animals in recent years according to the Jakarta globe have been a Sumatran
tiger which ate meat laced with formaldehyde. Then there was a giraffe which was found to
have an 18kg ball of plastic in its stomach because it ate so much rubbish thrown in by
visitors. According to the official appointed by the government to oversee improvements
at the zoo, Michael's death was a clear violation of standard animal care.