Labelled as an African leopard . Born 1995 at Basildon Zoo , an impressive animal who arrived as an unwanted pet . The indoor housing is small but the outdoor enclosure has plenty of raised areas which he was using .
Labelled as an African leopard . Born 1995 at Basildon Zoo , an impressive animal who arrived as an unwanted pet . The indoor housing is small but the outdoor enclosure has plenty of raised areas which he was using .
Labelled as an African leopard . Born 1995 at Basildon Zoo , an impressive animal who arrived as an unwanted pet . The indoor housing is small but the outdoor enclosure has plenty of raised areas which he was using .
Yes he was actually sold by Basildon Zoo to a private keeper initially, who then could not cope with him and threatened to shoot him, so the RSPCA confiscated him, and he then went to the Animalarium. In a bizarre twist, the RSPCA then tried to remove him from the Animalarium in recent years (but it failed because they could not get him into the crate, without sedation) after it was claimed that there was no paperwork to prove he was captive-bred etc, the reason for this was because Yolande Surcouf, the owner of Basildon Zoo, did not supply any paperwork with the animal originally. Rajah is now quite an elderly Leopard.
Yes he was actually sold by Basildon Zoo to a private keeper initially, who then could not cope with him and threatened to shoot him, so the RSPCA confiscated him, and he then went to the Animalarium. In a bizarre twist, the RSPCA then tried to remove him from the Animalarium in recent years (but it failed because they could not get him into the crate, without sedation) after it was claimed that there was no paperwork to prove he was captive-bred etc, the reason for this was because Yolande Surcouf, the owner of Basildon Zoo, did not supply any paperwork with the animal originally. Rajah is now quite an elderly Leopard.
