Pictures taken at a Siberian tiger park in northwest China’s Jilin province showed visitors posing for photos while sitting on top of a tiger cub tied to a wooden table, the state-run reported.
Video footage has also emerged from another animal park in Zhejiang province in the east, showing a tiger strapped to a bench while a man sat on top of it, bouncing up and down and slapping the tiger’s head.
The incidents provoked outrage on China’s popular social networking site Sina Weibo. “Humans gradually evolve into beasts,” one user said, while another added: “Humans have reached a new level of insanity.”
Authorities at the Jilin park said the abused cub was not among the animals it cares for, according to the , insisting that it belonged instead to an animal troupe that the park hired to stage performances for visitors.
