Dog posing as lion causes uproar at Henan zoo

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A Tibetan mastiff is housed in an African lion enclosure at People’s Park Zoo in the city of Luohe, Central China's Henan Province on August 12. (Photo/Orient Today)

Visitors at a Henan Province zoo expressed outrage after discovering exhibits claiming to house exotic specimens instead kept Tibetan mastiff and other more common animals.

A park visitor surnamed Liu noticed something wasn’t right at People’s Park Zoo in the city of Luohe last week when her 6-year-old son pointed out that the African lion they had paid to see had begun barking.

Upon closer inspection she discovered the animal was in fact a Tibetan mastiff, the Orient Today reported on August 14.

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