Chinese zoo 'passed off Golden Retriever as a lion' in 2021

After rumours circulated this week that a Chinese zoo had tried to pass off a 'man in a suit' as a sun bear because of its human-like posture, many were left red-faced when the zoo denied the accusations and it became clear that the animal in a suspicious-looking photo was likely a real sun bear.

However, the wild theory may not have been completely unfounded, as a resurfaced video of a wildlife centre in the Sichuan province suggests.

Instead of a human being passed off as a bear, a clip from the Yuanjiashan Zoo in Xichang shows a Golden Retriever dog which appears to be being passed off as a lion.

The footage, which was filmed in March 2021 by a baffled father who had taken his child to visit the African lion enclosure, shows the pooch behind a cage.

Joking that the animal looked 'familiar', the father, whose surname was Tang, sarcastically joked that he wasn't convinced the creature before him was an African lion - and wondered if it 'hadn't grown up' yet.

After a zoo in China was forced to deny a Malaysian sun bear was a 'man in a suit', a video has resurfaced of a Golden Retriever that was reportedly passed off as an African lion 

The reported at the time that Tang claimed he thought he'd taken his child to the wrong place when he came across the fluffy family breed of dog.

'After walking around the cage, we realised it is where the lion should be housed,' he said.

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