江蘇一動物園被曝用活驢投喂老虎

It is natural for predators to hunt their prey using sharp teeth and claws, but such bloody and ferocious scenes feel out place when they unfold at a zoo.

食肉動物用鋒利的牙齒和爪子捕食獵物是一件很正常的事情，但是這種血腥、殘忍的畫面在動物園上演就顯得不那麼合時宜了。

Visitors to Jiangsu Yancheng Wild Animal World in Changzhou on June 5 were more terrified than amused when they saw a donkey eaten alive by tigers, after the donkey was pushed into a river near the tigers' den.

6月5日，常州市江蘇淹城野生動物世界的遊客在看到一頭驢被幾隻老虎活活吃掉後，更多的是感到害怕而非快樂，此前這頭驢被逼到一條靠近虎穴的河邊。

"Two tigers immediately swam up to the donkey and bit its neck," wrote a netizen, whose post on a local online forum immediately drew attention.

一名網友寫道：“兩隻老虎立刻向這頭驢游去，並咬住它的脖子。”這則發佈在當地一個網上論壇上的帖子立刻引起了關注。

Photos from the post showed that the donkey was carried to the river from a truck, which was loaded with other animals including sheep.

帖子上的照片顯示，這頭驢從一輛卡車上被帶至河邊，車上載着包括綿羊在內的其它動物。

The men who threw the donkey were also allegedly trying to throw the sheep in as well, but were stopped by the zoo's guards and some visitors.

據稱，扔驢的幾名男子曾試圖將綿羊也扔進來，但是被動物園的保安和部分遊客阻止了。

"It may be normal to feed tigers live animals to imitate life in the wild, but it usually happens in the evening when the zoo is closed. This will scare children," commented a netizen.

一名網友評論道：“用活的動物喂老虎，模擬野生生活很正常，但是這通常發生在晚上動物園關門的時候。這樣會嚇到孩子們的。”

"I was shocked when I saw that. I have never seen anything like that before. I myself could not take it," a visitor surnamed Li told Nanjing newspaper Modern Express.

一名姓李的遊客告訴南京報社《現代快報》：“當看到這一畫面的時候，我真是驚到了。我以前從來沒有見過這樣的事情，我自己接受不了。”

A zoo employee later explained that the "feeding" was not conducted by the zoo itself, but by a stockholder of the zoo, as the zoo had all its assets frozen by a local court after a liability court case in 2016.

隨後，動物園一名員工解釋道，“餵養”不是動物園乾的，而是由動物園一名股東操手的，因爲在2016年的一責任法庭案件後，動物園的全部資產已被地方法院凍結。

"The stockholder may be dissatisfied with the court's ruling, hence the aggressive behavior," said the employee.

這名員工說道：“由於股東不滿法院裁定，就做出了過激舉動。”