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The sight of tigers in the wild in China is becoming increasingly rare, but there are hundreds in zoos around the country. So as the country came to a standstill this weekend to celebrate Chinese New Year, and see in the Year of the Tiger, it seemed only natural to use several Siberian tigers to welcome visitors to a zoo in Fuzhou in southeast China’s Fujian province. However, the tigers’ poses were far from natural, as they were cruelly forced into a series of poses as they made their greeting. Sitting on their hind legs with their paws in the air, the tigers were made to hold the poses for a lengthy period of time as visitors entered the zoo.’
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