This represents a goat being devoured by a beast, just as the Xiongnu horsemen would sweep down from Mongolia in the Northwest to pillage China's northern provinces.
The officers tried to get the goats into a police car to move them somewhere safer but it wasn't until they broke out a bag of Fritos, barbeque flavored ones, that the goats willingly followed the snack into the police cruiser.
Meanwhile, three totally very nice animals the goat, the rooster, and the monkey, were still on shore trying to figure out how they could get across the river.