Mahmoud Sarhan was visiting Cairo’s International Garden Municipal Park when he noticed the zebras seemed, different.
He posted some photos on Facebook that quickly went viral.
The picture showed a donkey painted as a zebra, aside from its pointy ears and its small size, there were also black smudges on its face.
Experts were baffled at the matter. A vet was contacted by the local news group who stated that a zebra's snout is black, while its stripes are more consistent and parallel.
The enclosure contained two animals and both had been painted, said Sarhan.
When a local radio station contacted Mohamed Sultan, the zoo director; he asserted that the animals were not fake.
This is not the first time that a zoo has been accused of trying to fool its audience. A similar incident occurred where the zoo exhibited blown up plastic penguins in Guangxi province in 2017. A zoo in Gaza painted to donkeys to look like zebras in 2009 and yet another zoo put up display of a donkey painted in zebra prints in Gaza in 2012 because of shortage of animals.