Worst. Zoo. Ever.

[cthulu2016]

This Zoo's explanation of the situation kills me.

Barking Lion? China Zoo Passes Dog As 'African Lion'
By Zoe Mintz

The People's Park of Luohe in the central province of Henan, reportedly disguised dogs, rodents and a white fox as lions, snakes and leopards in its enclosures. Weibo

When Sharon Liu took her 6-year-old son to a zoo in China, the lion began to bark. The “lion” turned out to be Tibetan mastiff, a dog with fluffy brown fur around its face. The incident, among others, exposed the People's Park of Luohe as a fraud where the zoo was replacing exotic species with common ones, Agence France-Presse reports. "The zoo is absolutely cheating us," Liu, who was charged $2.45 for admission told state-run Beijing Youth Daily. "They are trying to disguise the dogs as lions."






A zoo official tried to explain the mix-up to local outlet Oriental Daily, saying that the dogs are stand-ins until the lions return. "But the wolf is somewhere else in the pen and the dog is a pet. The African lions will be back. They went to another zoo to breed."

According to the South China Morning Post, there have been instances of dogs being painted black and white to look like pandas before in China. But the Luohe zoo incidents are something unusual....

http://www.ibtimes.com/barking-lion-china-zoo-passes-dog-african-lion-photos-1386813

[tk2kewl]

1. reminds me of the "Time Machine" from Idiocracy

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. They probably ate all the real animals. nt

[zbdent]

3. Why not? A few miles from my home, there's a museum which

has biblical time men with dinosaurs ...

oh, and it get gummint money, too ...

[bravenak]

4. I thought it would be a photo of congress.

I hope they didn't think this would fool anybody.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Within another hundred years nobody will know the differences. All 'wild' animals

will be extinct and 'science' and 'education' so dumbed down, who will know?

[KurtNYC]

6. A boy in stroller this morning insisted my dog was a "bear"

Here she is looking for salmon...