Mentally disturbed Chinese man jumps inside the Tiger's cage, offering the Wild Cats his own body to eat

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Chinese zoo keepers saved the life of a mentally disturbed man, Yang Jinhai, 27, by firing a tranquillizer dart at the male tiger that attacked him. The man announced he wanted to improve the lives of caged tigers at a local zoo by offering them his own body to eat. Yang had posted several online messages about how optimistic he was about starting a new life after getting a job as a security guard in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province.

After going to the local zoo he wrote how depressing it was to see the ‘noble and magnificent tigers’ living in such humble surroundings, where they were caged and unable to follow their natural instincts to hunt and kill. He then announced that he had decided to sacrifice himself in order to provide the Bengal tigers with support.

An eyewitness said:  “He climbed up the outside of the cage and jumped inside expecting, I assume, that the tigers would pounce on him. Instead the two tigers, a male and a female, seemed more nervous than anything else and the female actually ran off. He then tried to antagonize the tigers by pulling faces at them. Eventually he was attacked by the male where he was cut after being scratched and bitten before he could be rescued by zoo keepers who fired a tranquillizer dart at the male tiger.” They then pulled the man out of the cage.

Yang's family told local media Mr. Jinhai had been depressed for a long time and said that he had been taken to a home where he was given psychiatric counseling to cope with his problems.