Pent Animals

The photo story reveals the dismal conditions wild animals live in at the Sofia Zoo. Falling far behind most of its European counterparts, biggest Bulgarian zoo resembles the communist architectural paragon of beauty - small, solid enclosures made of concrete and cast iron. The zoo inhabitants, merely objects for human entertainment, are deprived of proper socialization with other representatives of their own species and lacking the stimuli of their natural environment. As a result, the vast majority of those animals develop all sorts of abnormal behavior