| Animal-Rights Activists Launch Another Protest in Tijuana - for the Zonkey Bob McPhail - San Diego Reader | |
| go to original February 9, 2015 |
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Animal-rights activists took to the streets of downtown Tijuana again in their most recent protest against what they say is the maltreatment of the city's iconic zonkeys — donkeys painted to look like zebras.
The zonkeys have long been a fixture along Avenida Revolución, where tourists sat atop the animals for a photo souvenir of their visit to Tijuana.
The Baja California chapter of the international organization Animal Equality has been urging city leaders for years to replace the live animals with fiberglass replicas, but municipal functionaries have balked at the idea, asserting that the live zonkeys are part of Tijuana's cultural heritage.
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