This is just wrong…
Witnesses watch on in horror as a live donkey was fed to a group of tigers in a Chinese zoo over the weekend.
Disgruntled shareholders fed the live animal to the tigers in a protest against the management of the zoo.
The ordeal of the poor donkey was filmed by onlookers in China and has since gone viral.
The footage shows the donkey being pushed out the back of a truck and down a ramp into the enclosure where it is quickly mauled by the tigers.
The donkey struggles for over 30 minutes before it eventually dies at the hands of the predators.
The shareholders invested money into the zoo two years ago and are yet to receive any financial renumeration from the zoo, and the zoo itself has been involved in a lawsuit ever since. As a result of the lawsuit, the assets of the zoo were frozen and they’re unable to sell assets to repay investors.
Under the court order the zoo said it could not sell any of the animals, “investment finances shrank” and shareholders earned no income for two years.
In an interview with local media, one of the shareholders involved in the dispute said: “Since we can’t have any benefits, we thought why not feed them to the tigers, at least we can save on animal feed.”
It’s reported that the zoo prevented the shareholders from feeding a live sheep to the tigers as well.
The zoo said it had “launched emergency procedures” to control the situation and was meeting with shareholders, and are seeking an end to further aggressive behaviour.
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