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As there were apparently no real zebras for the new Cairo Zoo, the employees knocked over two domestic donkeys. The evidence of a student now provides the network for ridicule and malevolence.
Mahmoud A. Sarhan shows one of the painted animals. (Image: Facebook)
Nothing is impossible in Umm el Dounia, the mother of all nations. Egypt likes to present itself as a model for the world – so why not for the animal world. Because there were apparently no real zebras on hand for the Cairo International Garden's new zoo, employees quickly repainted two domestic donkeys for photogenic steppe animals. The black stripes on the fur are not as accurate as the original, but the graffiti artists have finished their work with a few spots on the face and a wide line across the mouth.
When 18-year-old visitor Mahmoud A. Sarhan recently discovered this new fur costume and posted a photo with one of the animals on Facebook, there was scorn and mockery in Egyptian cyberspace. He himself has an artistic line and understands something about painting, says the student, but this work is just ridiculous. "The donkey is a spy," wrote one user among the 7500 shared entries. "Our good ass – can be used anywhere in the service of the nation," commented another. "Yes, we are, the great Egyptian people."
Zoochef Mohamed Sultan, a former general commanding the new complex on Abbas El-Akkad road in the city of Nasr since February this year, is in all the excitement do not understand it. "These are real zebras and no animals from here," he told local radio just a skeptical interviewer. However, he did not like talking about the long ears of his zebras and the black lines that gradually disappeared because of the heat.
Gazing at the Gaza City Zoo
According to him, all the animals come from his big brother, the 19th century zoo in Giza, which once rivaled the urban animal parks of London and Berlin. Meanwhile, his reputation is in the wrong hands. In 2004, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (Waza) rejected it because the animals had too little runoff and were poorly cared for. The elephants were chained, the lions turned nervously in their tight cages. A young giraffe strangled her pen after being constantly harassed and attacked by visitors. "Giza Zoo – Park or Prison?" Was the title of a Cairo newspaper at the time.
However, the zebra's donkey ride is not completely new to the Arab world either. A few years ago, the Gaza City Zoo was already combing two of the stubborn black striped pelagic animals because no real animals could be imported because of the Israeli and Egyptian blockade. However, the director of the Palestinian zoo did not hide the secret. "I just wanted to show the kids what life is like outside of Gaza," he says.
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