An altered photo?

If you look closely at this photo, it looks like it has been altered and tigers added. The "tail" on the tiger on the left is not his tail, and his posture is almost identical to the posture of the tiger on the ball. The tiger on the right surely was an afterthought. I suspect a great many of these old photo's were altered if you study them close. The "stretch boards" on the side of the pedestals are also odd. The one in the middle with one seems like it should be on the end, and the one on the end with two seems like it should be in the middle.