BEIJING: A Chinese zoo ridiculed for disguising a dog as a lion has shut down temporarily for “rectification”, media reported yesterday.
The zoo’s supposed “African lion” was exposed as a fraud when the dog used as a substitute — a Tibetan Mastiff — started barking, the state-run Beijing Youth Daily had reported earlier.
The zoo, in central China’s Henan province, has “altered several misnamed animal signs,” the Beijing Times reported, adding that zoo officials had issued a public apology and “closed for rectification”.
Three other species housed incorrectly in the zoo reportedly included: two coypu rodents in a snake’s cage, a white fox in a leopard’s den, and another dog in a wolf pen.
AFP
