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Sunday, 22 April 2012

Welcome to the world's weirdest zoo, where owner stuffs animals and puts them BACK in cages... because he can't afford to buy new ones

An emaciated stuffed lion lies on an exhibit cobbled together from crates and shipping pallet, flies hovering over its mangy coat. 

Nearby, a monkey missing limbs is frozen in a mummified gaze; a porcupine's brittle spines protrude from its lifeless corpse. 


The animals are among those exhibited at the Khan Younis zoo in the impoverished Gaza Strip - where zookeepers, to avoid smuggling animals across borders, stuff and embalm those that die and return them to their enclosures.         Read Here

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