Well, this makes Sea World look not so bad. A zoo in the Liaoning province of China has been closed following the death of several Siberian tigers in captivity. It's believed the tigers were purposefully starved and left to die so that their bones and penises could be used to make valuable "tiger tonics," which fetch high prices on the black market.

According to an unnamed source in the Beijing News, between 40 and 50 tigers have died at the Shenyang Wildlife Zoo since 2000, and it was an "open secret" that the zoo was making tiger-bone liquor, which is valued in traditional Chinese medicine for its supposed ability to increase potency and treat some diseases. A report surfaced last week that 11 of the zoo's tigers had recently died of starvation, and three years ago, four tigers at the zoo killed and ate a fellow tiger that they had been sharing a cage with for five years. It's now believed that the animals were deliberately starved so that their tiger bodies could be harvested for bones and penises, which are believed to improve virility in the limp-dicked men who slaughter endangered species. In one report, a zoo official said he had been making tiger bone wine since 2005 and admitted the zoo used the stuff to bribe police and Forestry department officials, who are supposedly responsible for animal protection. There are believed to be only about 20 Siberian tigers surviving in the wild.