ISLE OF WIGHT ZOO
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WE IP TIGERS 5he Isle of Wight Zoo, with its professed fondness for tigers, must have checked the delivery note in some consternation when it received Cleopatra, a twin humped bactrian camel with not a stripe in sight. Or perhaps the zoo's visitors are easily fooled, not being familiar with the essential design differences between the ship of the desert and the king of the jungle. Let's hope Cleopatra is not suffering an identity crisis as the result of such thoughtlessly worded livery.
Fear not, animal lovers. Cleopatra, it transpires, normally lives at Longleat in Wiltshire and has been swapped for the summer with two loW Zoo leopards. Or elephants, as it says on the front of the cage.