bdmetronews Desk ॥ A donkey reportedly became collateral damage over a dispute between an investor and managers of a zoo in China.
Shocking video uploaded to LiveLeak on Monday shows a group of men shoving a donkey off the back of a truck and into a tiger exhibit. The donkey lands with a splash into a moat that surrounds the enclosure.
The donkey struggled for 30 minutes in the water as several tigers pounced on it, according to China’s English language news site the South China Morning Post.
The below video was reportedly filmed on Monday at the Yancheng Wild Animal World in the Jiangsu province of eastern China.
Zoo officials said in a statement released on the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo that investors in the zoo threw the donkey into the tigers’ enclosure after becoming frustrated over a dispute between the zoo and another company that led to the freezing of the zoo’s assets, the BBC reported.
The investors responsible for the feeding frenzy reportedly attempted to take the donkey and other zoo animals out of the zoo in order to sell them, but security stopped them, according to the South China Morning Post. So the investors shoved the donkey into the tigers’ moat instead, the news outlet reports.
In the video, zoo visitors can be heard reacting with horror and surprise as the donkey lands in the predators’ exhibit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqIC5U3-0U
