Quotable

"It's inhumane to the animals. If I give you a steamed stuffed bun and pull it back while you are eating it, would you mind that? Confined animals in the zoos are not supposed to entertain people like that."

Guo Geng, an animal protection expert, quoted by Beijing Youth Daily in a story about a zoo's practice of arranging a "tug-of-war" between several people and a tiger, with the tiger holding food in a bag and the people pulling a rope tied to the bag. The zoo, in Changsha, Hunan province, said the practice aims to help the animals return to a wild state.

"Who would want to marry a weird man like me who has 120 'sons'?"

Zhao Junlu, 45, of Dandong, Liaoning province, joking with a reporter from Huashang Morning Post about helping support more than 120 street children in the past 15 years.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 10/04/2013 page3)