It drags the pig still squealing back into its cage to toy with it. The crowd shows its appreciating by laughing, spitting and dropping burning cigarette butts on the caged tigers below. It is the calf's turn, and this time there is no hesitation. A big, lean full-grown cat is let loose and goes straight for the throat. A front-end loader suddenly disrupts the proceedings, entering the arena to chase the cat back into its cage.
Death comes at human hands - a sledgehammer blow to the head and a sharp knife to the throat.
The carcasses are cut up and fed to the other cats. There is an unsettling feeling as you leave the bloodied arena to the sound of laughter, approaching one of the park's open enclosures. Inside is a number of albino Siberian tigers. You ask a park official where she thinks these particular tigers originate. There are no tigers in Australia.