Bizarre zoo fuss: how dogs become pandas and zebras!

Bizarre zoo fuss: how dogs become pandas and zebras!

In a scandal about supposedly fake animal sightings, two Chinese zoos caused excitement. In the Zoo of the province of Shandong there was a donkey that was presented as a zebra after it was painted unbelievably with black and white color. The unequal color lines of the animal were so striking that the visitors quickly recognized that it was a donkey that was to be sold as a so -called zebra. These questionable "marketing strategies" are not new to the zoo, which was already in the headlines when he disguised dogs as a panda tan to secure more income, as krone.at reported.

outrage about panda star-imitation

Another incident occurred in the province of Guangdong, where a visitor to film "panda bears" in a zoo had to find out in disbelief that the animals were actually two painted dogs. This was illustrated by a video that was shared over 1.4 million times on Douyin, China's counterpart to Tiktok and received more than 725,000 likes. Despite a shield, which the animals referred to as "Panda dogs", there was great resentment on social media. The practice of painting animals in order to output them as other species has already been observed, as in May in another zoo in Jiangsu, where dogs were also painted black and white, FOCUS.de reported.

These bizarre incidents show a questionable tendency in animal husbandry that is geared towards audience attractiveness, and raise questions about the ethics of such “attractions”.