Zoo in Egypt accused of painting zebra stripes on a donkey
Zebra stripes shouldn't smudge. (Source: Facebook)
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN/RNN) - A zoo is accused of trying to fool visitors by painting zebra stripes onto a donkey.
Although the zoo director insists the animal is the real thing, its large ears and smudged paint job made some visitors take a second look.
Mahmoud Sarhan, a student visiting Cairo’s International Garden, put the photos on Facebook.
A student posted photos of the donkey painted as a zebra on Facebook. (Source: Facebook/CNN)
A vet in Egypt told local media that the spacing of the stripes are wrong, and the muzzle should be completely black.
This isn’t the first time a zoo has tried to pass one type of animal off as another.
A zoo in Gaza couldn’t get zebras into the area because of the blockade in 2009. Two donkeys were dyed to resemble zebras.
In 2013, a Chinese zoo put a Tibetan mastiff dog in the African lion display.
In some cases, the substitutions are not alive or real. Another Gaza zoo used stuffed wild animals on display. A different zoo in China used blow-up penguins for a display.
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