A photographer looks at a 12-year-old Siberian tiger's killed at a zoo in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province, Sunday Nov. 18, 2007. A tiger at a wild animal park in northeast China was bitten to death by four other cats in a fight stemming from a food shortage at the underfunded attraction, a park official said Monday.
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Tiger Killed in Fight Over Food at Park

Animal rights activists called Monday for improved living conditions at China's wild animal parks after the deaths of captive tigers from disease and starvation, including a tiger killed by four other cats in a fight over meager food supplies at a zoo in northeast China.

The more than 30 tigers in the Bing Chuan park in Shenyang have been receiving less than their normal allowance of about 11 pounds of frozen chicken and beef per day because of lack of funding, said a park official, who gave only his surname, Li.

While the park relies on entrance fees for most of its income, cold weather has kept visitors away, Li said.