Visitors to a zoo in Hubei, China seemed to have gotten slightly less than what they paid for, when a trip to the wolf enclosure yielded zero wolves and one dog instead.
According to an article by South China Morning Post published on May 5, 2019, visitors at the Wuhan Mt Jiufeng Forest zoo the day before found only a dog of unknown breed inside the wolf enclosure, sparking much confusion.
This is despite the enclosure sporting a sign tacked to the fence, labeled with the Chinese word for ‘wolf’.
In a video presumably taken by one of the zoo-goers and posted on Thepaper.cn, bewildered guests in the background could be heard laughing and exclaiming in surprise, saying: “There’s no wolf.”
One woman pointed out that the dog was a “stray dog”, while one kid asked the true question: “Is this a dog?”
Passing off fakes as animals
There have been several cases in China where zoos try to pass off things as something they are not.
One zoo in Henan tried to substitute a Tibetan mastiff, a very large, shaggy breed of dog, as a lion.
Another zoo touted a live butterfly show, but visitors arrived to a display of plastic butterfly replicas on the ground instead.
While yet another zoo in Guangxi had inflatable pop-up penguins instead of the actual birds, and domestic livestock in place of wildlife.
In this case of the 'Dog Wolf' however, there is a plot twist... read on to find out what it is...
https://mothership.sg/2019/05/china-zoo-wolf-dog/
