A Chinese zoo allegedly admitted to painting donkeys ... In 2018, a zoo in Cairo, Egypt was accused of painting zebra stripes on donkeys after social media pointed out the animal’s face and ...

Images posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok ... to compelling human interest stories. The donkey-zebra switch up is not the first time a zoo has attempted to dress its animals up ...

"The zoo is absolutely trying to cheat us," one visitor told Chinese media. "They are trying to disguise dogs as lions." Zebras and donkeys, despite both bearing a resemblance to horses ...

A zoo in Zibo City, Shandong Province, China, is facing backlash after it was discovered that donkeys had been painted ... footage shared on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, showed the ...

One widely shared photo even showed a zoo worker standing beside a donkey covered in artificial zebra markings ... the visitors,” one critic wrote on Chinese social media platform Douyin ...

The donkey painted black and white at the zoo. A Chinese zoo has come under scrutiny after admitting to painting donkeys black and white to look like zebras in a bid to increase tourist footfall ...

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A zoo in Cairo has been accused of painting black and white zebra stripes on a donkey to try and fool its ... And in 2013, a Chinese zoo attempted to pass a Tibetan mastiff off as a lion.

Pictures of the painted donkeys have since gone viral on Chinese social media where people have slammed the zoo for mistreating animals and misleading visitors. One user called the act "misleading ...

Representatives from the Hangzhou Zoo in eastern China are ... that was said to be a lion — and a donkey that was painted with stripes to look like a zebra. The Associated Press contributed ...

Video: Chinese zoo paints donkey to look like a zebra The Zibo City amusement park in Shandong province admitted to colouring donkeys with black and white stripes to attract visitors. This ...