Chinese zoo 'tries to pass dog off as a wolf' in cage after animal dies of old age

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A zoo in China has been accused of trying to pass a dog off as a wolf. A visitor to the Xiangwushan Zoo in Xianning, Hubei province was amused to find what looks like a Rottweiler in the wild animal's enclosure.

The brown and black pooch appears docile, lying on its side in the visitor's video which has since gone viral. "Woof! Are you a wolf?" the man wrote in a caption.

The video shows a red sign that reads ‘The wolf is here’. Mr Xu, who filmed the footage, said he asked staff why there was a dog in the wolf's enclosure.

They told him the wolf had "died of old age", Beijing News reported. Zoo officials later confirmed that the mutt was only being kept their temporarily following the death of its distant cousin.