Liu Suya, chief of the zoo’s animal department, told the paper that the actual lion has been temporarily sent to a breeding facility.
“The wolf is somewhere else in the pen and the dog is a pet,” another zoo official told the Oriental Daily. “The African lions will be back. They went to another zoo to breed.”
The zoo’s head also told the paper that the signs outside the African lion cage would be changed until the actual lion returns.
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