Cairo zoo fools visitors with 'donkeybra' enclosure
Staff at a zoo inside the International Garden in Cairo, Egypt is adamant that there is nothing suspicious about their oddly striped animal.
On a trip through the zoo at Cairo's International Garden, a student named Mahmoud Sarhani noticed something strange about the zebras.
They appeared to be losing some of their stripes and, on closer investigation, they didn't look like zebras at all.
A zebra losing its stripes is already suspicious, but the zoo's tricks were further exposed by the fact that the animal in question has long floppy ears, unlike a zebra.
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Mahmoud was not fooled: "When he came near to me, I realised from the first look that it was a painted donkey, not a zebra."
The Mail Online reports that Mohamed Sultan, the director of the International Garden, insists the animal is a zebra. But what kind of zebra starts losing its colour as soon as the weather gets really hot?
There's no telling why the zoo would want to pass a donkey off as a "donkeybra" or a zedonk. But if you start sweating so much that the colour of your skin changes, please call for help immediately.