An Egyptian zoo is insisting it did not paint a pair of donkeys to look like zebras. Cairo's International Garden municipal park became a target of ridicule after an Egyptian student, Mahmoud Sarhan, ...

In 2009, after two zebras died of starvation in a Gaza zoo, the owner painted two white donkeys with black stripes in a bid to pass them off as zebras. “The first time we used paint, but it didn’t ...

Reporting from CAIRO — They say a zebra can’t change his stripes. But a zoo in Egypt apparently figured it could change a couple of donkeys to pass off the common pack animals as their more exotic ...

A zoo in Cairo is allegedly showing its true stripes by passing off painted donkeys as zebras. Mahmoud Sarhan recently visited the International Garden, a municipal park in Cairo, and immediately ...

CAIRO (Reuters) – The chimpanzees, lions and hippos of Cairo’s zoo are getting a rare spell of peace and quiet alone with their keepers as a closure caused by the coronavirus outbreak keeps the public ...

CAIRO — The giraffe committed suicide, an Egyptian newspaper reported. And the government pulled a former zoo director out of retirement to deal with the resulting media storm. “The problem is with ...

Vets at Cairo's Giza Zoo are experimenting with birth control on their rapidly expanding population of lions. They are taking the unusual step of giving the big cats human birth control pills after a ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian authorities closed Cairo zoo and seven other state-run zoos around the country for two weeks from Sunday after 83 birds died there, some from the deadly H5N1 strain of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A zoo in Cairo has been accused of painting black and white zebra stripes on a donkey to try and fool its visitors, according to reports from CNN and The ...