KARACHI:
Where the experience of captivity in itself withdraws animals into a depressing life of immobility and isolation, the absence of testing facilities and licensed veterinarians in zoos across the port city, leaves hundreds of mammals hanging between infirmity and death.
The recent demise of the female elephant Nur Jehan in the Karachi Zoo has drawn increased attention to the dire unavailability of a laboratory and scanning service for ailing animals in the Karachi Zoo