Depressed man tried to feed himself to tigers

A man in China survived an unsuccessful attempt to feed himself to a pair of Bengal tigers and is being treated for depression, a Chinese newspaper has reported.

According to the Chengdu Business Daily, Yang Jinhai, 27, climbed a tree and jumped into the tigers’ enclosure on Sunday at the Chengdu Zoo in southwest China’s Sichuan province.

As stunned visitors watched, Yang — who is unemployed and suffers from mental health issues, according to his brother — “performed exaggerated movements” as he spent 20 minutes trying to tempt the tigers to eat him.