Heartbreaking footage shows a lone wolf walking for hours on end along the same figure-of-eight route in a Chinese zoo has gone viral.?
Workers at the zoo claimed that the wolf had been rejected by a pack, causing it to feel 'a bit depressed' and walk in the same pattern over and over again.
The zoo refuted web users' speculations that the animal was acting like this because it had been stuck in a crowded cage.??
According to Mail Online, one spokesperson claimed that the wolf had been sent to the edge of its enclosure by the alpha male of a pack.
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He told Chinese news outlet?Kan Kan News?that the wolf had 'low status' within the pack.
'The wolf king arranged it to guard and keep watch of the edge of the wolf enclosure near the entrance,' the zoo representative stated on Sunday.
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'Therefore, his mood may have been affected. The fact that it walks the figure-of-eight pattern is due to its habit,' he claimed.
In?a social media post, the zoo said that it had 16 wolves in total, including the lone wolf.?It added that the wolf was yet to be accepted into any of the three packs there because it arrived just two months ago.
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The post claimed that as a result of being a lone wolf, it was probably 'a bit depressed', and was working off the depression by walking on the same route every day.
In a similar case of a captive tiger, apparently depressed, walked non-stop, endlessly in circles inside its enclosure in China, A circular mark was etched on the ground as the tiger barely had any place to walk.?
The footage shows a white Bengal tiger going round and round as tourists overlook the enclosure from a walkway above. The video is allegedly from a Beijing zoo. According to one report the Beijing Zoo said that the tiger had been given ‘psychological counselling’ after its keepers 'noticed the strange behaviour at the end of March.