11 rare tigers die in zoo

CHINESE state media said 11 Siberian tigers died at a zoo in the country’s frigid northeast and animal protection officials suspect that the majority died because they weren’t given enough to eat.

The China Daily newspaper reported that the animals were kept in small metal cages at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning province and given a meagre diet of chicken bones, apparently as the zoo was strapped for cash.

Siberian tigers are one of the world’s rarest species, with just 300 believed remaining in the wild.