Chinese cartoonists are increasingly finding fame online, where a menagerie of animated animals is proving a hit with netizens. Deng Zhangyu reports.

In 2006, when blogs were still new in China, a group of cartoonists who had gathered at Beijing nicknamed their group "Capital Zoo", for the cartoon images they had created - a fox, a rabbit and a cat.

Now the most famous rabbit in China, Tuzki, is a popular emoticon, while the rest of the zoo is also well-known, thanks to the Internet.