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A lioness is seen inside a cage at a privately owned zoo adjacent to the Shat al-Arab river in the southern city of Basra, 550kms south of Baghdad on February 13, 2016. / AFP / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI (Photo credit should read HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI/AFP/Getty Images)

A lioness is seen inside a cage at a privately owned zoo adjacent to the Shat al-Arab river in the southern city of Basra, 550kms south of Baghdad on February 13, 2016. 

 / AFP / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI        (Photo credit should read HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI/AFP/Getty Images)