Tibetan Antelope & Railway Photo a Fake

So it turns out the Tibetan antelope doesn’t love the railway after all…

This photo of a herd of Tibetan antelope running happily under the Tibet railway, and embarrassingly one of China’s top photos of last year, has been proven to be a big, fat fake. (Click on the photo itself and see the details that prove it’s a phony.)

An article printed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal points out that the scandal ” has brought on a big debate about media ethics, China’s troubled relationship with Tibet, and how pregnant antelope react to noise. ”

That the Chinese lie about pretty much everything related to Tibet in their media is no surprise to Tibetans. We know that nearly all of the quotes from Tibetans who are happy and prospering under Chinese rule, and the photos of them celebrating occasions like the inaugural run of the railway and the anniversary of the “peaceful liberation of Tibet” are as staged and as fake as the photo you see here.