The Animals

One stumptailed macaque has lived alone in a cage measuring 7 feet by 5 feet by 6 feet tall for four years. Crowded into his cage is a crude "cave" that is clearly not appropriate for an animal the size of a stumptailed macaque. His cage is littered with feces.

A gibbon has also lived alone in his cage-measuring 7 feet by 6 feet-for years. He is forced to live on wire fencing suspended off the ground.

Two cages house monkeys. In one cage are four monkeys, three of them missing a large amount of hair all over their bodies. They have nothing for enrichment but a broken swing.

Two boa snakes are housed in a cage measuring 5.5 feet by 7 feet even though the snakes are about 7 feet long. They can barely move around and, like the primates, have no water.

Near these animals are two cages of moon bears. One cage houses three large bears and measures only 15 feet by 10 feet. An adjacent cage, slightly smaller, houses one lone moon bear, who is visibly suffering from a toothache, as he constantly clutches and paws at his right jaw.

A month earlier, PETA's whistleblower had visited this attraction and also found a cage housing a lone turtle. During the follow-up investigation, PETA discovered that the turtle had died.

All around these cages where animals suffer in the heat in their intense confinement, people were enjoying themselves-oblivious to their suffering. There is a tennis court directly adjacent to their enclosures, but it was so hot on this late autumn day that no one was out playing. The only time tennis players will bear the heat is at sunrise or sunset.

While PETA was surveying the scene, Dutch tourists with a tour company called De Boer and Wendel happened by and commented on the sorry state of the animals.

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