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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Kyle O'Sullivan

Inside Michael Jackson's zoo of horrors - giraffes on fire and bear in bumper car

Michael Jackson portrayed himself as an amimal lover - but his zoo was like something out of a horror movie.

The King of Pop was infactuated with animals, famously singing a song about his pet rat Ben as a child, and would take a 6ft boa constrictor called Muscles into the music studio.

But this fascination with nature spiralled out of control as the pop sensation started buying exotic creatures to house in his Neverland ranch in California.

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