Is this the world's worst zoo? Visitors' fury after staff in China try to pass off Tibetan mastiff as a lion and a mongrel as a leopard
A China zoo has been forced to apologise after it tried to pass off a dog as a lion.
Angry visitors to the People's Park in Luohe, Henan province, complained when the 'African lion' started barking.
Zoo staff said they had pretended the Tibetan mastiff was a lion because they could not afford the real thing, local media reported.
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Visitors said they felt defrauded by paying to see an African lion (right) and being shown a dog (left)
The state-run Beijing Youth Daily claims the zoo commonly replaced exotic animals with common species.
Elsewhere in the zoo, visitors found a mongrel dog in the Timber wolf's cage and another pooch posing as a leopard in the big cat enclosure.
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Then in the reptile house, keepers had placed two giant sea cucumbers which they were trying to pass off as snakes.
One customer called Liu said: ''They're cheats. I paid good money to see the lion and all I got to see was a dog.
'The zoo is absolutely cheating us. I took my son there so he could hear the different sounds animals made but when we reached the cage where the African lion was supposed to be, the big animal in there started barking.
'I paid good money for the tickets and I feel defrauded.'
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