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