Reform the world's cruelest zoo

Shackled elephants, starving camels, 150 pelicans crammed into one cage - and a death toll that rises daily:

• More than 50 animals have died in the last three months at Indonesia's Surayaba Zoo, a former keeper has claimed;

• One giraffe died last year with 20kg of plastic bags in its stomach after they blew into its cage and weren't cleared;

• In another case, a Sumatran tiger's digestive tract rotted away after it was routinely fed formaldehyde-laced meat;

• A Zoo spokesman defended the attraction, branded the worst in the world, but admitted: 'We also have issues'.

By RICHARD SHEARS IN SURABAYA, INDONESIA