Zoo owner and artist Aleksandr Pylyshenko decided to spend five weeks in a cage inside a cage at a private zoo situated in the city of Vasilyevka, southeastern Ukraine on August 3, 2011. He is living with pair of African lions, Katya and Samson, to get money for improving the lions' living conditions, according to local media.

He is also broadcasting it on internet to attract the public's attention to plight of wild animals in private Ukrainian zoos, which do not get enough fundings.