{"id":28915,"date":"2013-08-16T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T05:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28915"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T05:35:25","slug":"is-this-the-worlds-worst-zoo-visitors-fury-after-staff-in-china-try-to-pass-off-tibetan-mastiff-as-a-lion-and-a-mongrel-as-a-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28915","title":{"rendered":"Is this the world&#8217;s worst zoo? Visitors&#8217; fury after staff in China try to pass off Tibetan mastiff as a lion and a mongrel as a leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tibetan-mastiff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28913\" alt=\"Tibetan mastiff\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tibetan-mastiff.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tibetan-mastiff.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tibetan-mastiff-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>A China zoo has been forced to apologise after it tried to pass off a dog as a lion.<\/p>\n<p>Angry visitors to the People&#8217;s Park in Luohe, Henan province, complained when the &#8216;African lion&#8217; started barking.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo staff said they had pretended the Tibetan mastiff was a lion because they could not afford the real thing, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Beijing Youth Daily claims the zoo commonly replaced exotic animals with common species.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the zoo, visitors found a mongrel dog in the Timber wolf&#8217;s cage and another pooch posing as a leopard in the big cat enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the reptile house, keepers had placed two giant sea cucumbers which they were trying to pass off as snakes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Liu Suya, chief of the park&#8217;s animal department, insisted the zoo did have a lion but it had been taken to a breeding facility.<\/p>\n<p>As for the dog that was in its cage, Mr Liu said it belonged to a employee and had been put there &#8216;for safety reasons.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the zoo said: &#8216;We&#8217;re doing our best in tough economic times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If anyone is unhappy with our displays we will give back their money.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A China zoo has been forced to apologise after it tried to pass off a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-28915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-china-2","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}