A zoo in China is getting alot of grief over their public feedings. Visitors to the zoo in Harbin, China can buy chickens, sheep, cattle, and ducks to feed to the Siberian tigers. After the meals have been purchased, visitors in busses encircle th tigers in their enclosure, while the workers let the prey loose. Then visitors are permitted to watch the tigers kill live prey.
I'm not sure how I feel about this practice. On one hand, the tigers have to eat, they are obligate carnivores (eating meat almost exclusively), and their diet does consist of other animals. In the video it discusses how long it takes for these tigers to "finish-off" their prey, where as in the wild the time is much shorter. I would say this has to do with the fact that in the wild, the tigers have to work harder to get fed, they are hungrier than animals that are kept in an enclosed area and fed twice a day.
To read more or watch a video of this, click on the links below
http://skynews6.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/zoo_horror_live.html
http://www.aolvideoblog.com/2007/05/24/chinese-zoo-stages-tiger-attacks-for-tourists/
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