Ten animals at the National Zoo in Mirpur, Dhaka, live without a single companion of their own species. One of them, an African rhinoceros, has been alone since 2013.
People and a familiar enclosure surround them, but none of their kind. Some sit alone, some pace the same corner of the cage, some pass the hours in silence. The pictures are a reminder that company, like food and shelter, is part of what an animal needs to live.
The ten are a striped hyena, a hamadryas baboon, an African rhinoceros, an African white lion, an Indian sarus crane, a spotted hyena, a kangaroo, a hoolock gibbon, a cassowary and a monkey the zoo lists as a kulu. The cassowary has been alone for about 17 years; the baboon since 2022, the kangaroo since 2023 and the monkey since March 2025.
Photos: Mir Hossain, Prothom Alo
Source: Prothom Alo
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