Donkey Painted With Zebra Stripes To Fool Spectators At Gaza Zoo.

According to a very odd story at Yahoo,a poor donkey had to don stripes in order to fake a zebra.The director said they tried using henna but it didn't work and wood paint seemed inhumane, so the zoo incharge had the bright idea to use hair dye.He tried it on the animal after his hair was trimmed off.Thus he was made to represent a zebra,according to Mahmud Berghat,the director of a zoo in Gaza,Margah, which is near the Bureji refugee camp in Palestine.He felt sorry for the children as they had never seen a zebra before.

There is a shortage of wild animals in this war torn area ,so just to make the spectators feel happy,( they are mostly school children )the donkey had to be used in place of a real zebra which was hard to be made available.

They can't tell the difference but the director disclosed two clever university students had recognized that it was a donkey and not a zebra.

The poor animal has his head down and stands further away from the door so as not to be too much in the limelight.

Besides ,there is a very old lion which is not in such a good condtion.