A Year of Animal Oddities Around the World: 7 Reader Favorites
The animals, rare white giraffes, inspired awe across the world after the Hirola Conservation Program posted a video of them.
The animals — three lions, two tigers, two bears and two hyenas — were relocated after months of uncertainty amid the country’s brutal civil war.
Footage from local TV outlets showed the donkeys, in the town of Orai in Uttar Pradesh State, plodding
out of a dingy jail in single file with their heads bowed, much like the classic police perp walk.
Police officials in Uttar Pradesh accused the animals of eating several saplings
that had been planted near a local jail as part of a cleanup campaign.
Abdullahi H. Ali, who founded Hirola, said it was the first known video of white giraffes.
In September, a rare wild bison wandered across from Poland into eastern Germany, where it was spotted near the town of Lebus.