The black-and-brown item in question was curled up like intestines, and its end was barbed. But practitioners of Chinese medicine pointed out what was featured in this picture supposedly proving that Taiwanese ate tiger penises was not the real thing.
圖片上黑褐色的虎鞭，卷曲如腸，尾端則帶有許多倒鉤刺；但在中醫師指證下，這張被作為台灣吃虎鞭證據的照片上，卻是一條「假虎鞭」。