A group of angry zoo investors have fed a live donkey to tigers at a Chinese zoo after a dispute with management.
The incident took place on Monday afternoon at Yancheng city in Jiangsu province in front of stunned visitors.
The zoo said the shareholders had tossed the donkey to the tigers "in a fit of rage", and apologised to the public for the incident.
Video clips and photos of the incident have gone viral on Chinese social media, triggering shocked reactions.
The donkey is seen being pushed out of a truck into a moat in the tigers' enclosure, where it is quickly set upon by the tigers. Zoo visitors can be heard exclaiming in the background.
Representatives at the Yancheng Safari Park declined to answer queries from the BBC.

But in statements (in Chinese) released on its Sina Weibo microblogging account, the zoo said the incident stemmed from a legal case between the zoo and another company.
The case led a court to freeze the zoo's assets two years ago. This meant that it could not sell its animals and its "investment finances shrank", it said.
Several animals, including two giraffes and a chimpanzee, also died because the zoo could not obtain permits to transport them elsewhere for medical treatment.
Its shareholders were "filled with anger for a long time" as they were unable to receive returns on their investments, and were also upset about the animals' deaths.
They suspected that the zoo, together with the court, were "conspiring to cheat small investors of their investments, and so in a fit of rage, decided to feed donkeys and sheep... to tigers", said the management.
Newspaper Xiandai Kuaibao (in Chinese) said that after the donkey was pushed in, zoo staff managed to stop the shareholders from tossing sheep into the moat.

Film at 11.... 😞

This thread is worthless without that video...

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wow those tigers are a shell of what they are in the wild
poor things barely knew what to do

they prolly woulda preferred a wallaby or monkey or somethin from the mother land... 😟

maybe they should have rubbed some curry on the donkey?

Leave it to the Cinnese to fuggup a donkey show.

So if they had waited to thrown the donkeys in second, we could have called this only a sheep shot.

they musta had other plans for the sheeps... 😟

I heard Drafter has stretchmarks on his lips from "the donkey" in Mexico.

freak.... always gotta try to gay up the threads... 🤐

That's Indian food, not Chinese food... racist. [frypan]

I don't know how I missed that...


Racist!

Beat me to the joke

Aren't the largest concentration of tigers in India?

Dang now y'all going to make me Google

Yeah, 2/3 of the wild population... but those particular tigers are in China. You shoulda said szechuan or kung pao.

How do you know they weren't kidnapped in the tiger sex trade?

Us felines all have a story.

But you are right, it's hard to go wrong with kung pao...

Dafter, how did you get Wallaby? They are from Australia and New Guinea.

Tigers gotta eat too. They could have just shot the donkey before feeding to to the tigers... Oh wait, this China, bullets are for dissidents.

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