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zebra or painted donkey?
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fake-zebras-cairo-zoo_us_5b5a22bee4b0b15aba96c1f1
Although the zoos director, Mohamed Sultan, insisted his zebras were 100 percent legit to local radio station Nogoum FM, a local vet told the Cairo-based ExtraNews.TV that a zebras snout should be black and the stripes should be more consistent and parallel, according to the BBC.
CBS News also notes that zebras and donkeys, despite both bearing a resemblance to horses, are different species.
Other zoos have also been accused of trying to gray the area between zebras and donkeys.
In 2010, a zoo in Gaza painted stripes on two donkeys it purchased for $700 because they were much cheaper than the $30,000 zebras.
markses66
(94 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)I love donkeys so it's all good to me.
Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)Beakybird
(3,333 posts)Jacoby365
(451 posts)Part-time zebra painter. Must be available one day per week to freshen stripes.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Secondly, you can see the damn smudges from the paint.
thirdly, Zebras are taller than donkey's.
Finally, a real Zebra would not be that friendly to strangers or even at all.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)A zebras snout is black, the ears are shorter and the mane comes up to between the ears.
Nero Mero
(52 posts)Experts disagree.