15.6.09

Somewhere in Lucknow....


A lion munches on a plastic bottle thrown in its enclosure at the Lucknow Zoo by some roguish visitor on Friday afternoon. Onlookers told our photographer that the king of beasts had already feasted on a similar bottle which eventually could choke it to a slow and painful death. And mind you, all this was within a span of 30 minutes only. With thousands of visitors thronging the zoo daily, the animals’ daily consumption of such deadly articles is anybody’s guess. Will the blissfully unaware zoo authorities and an equally capricious citizenry have some mercy and put a check on such indiscreet acts ....

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