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Copenhagen zoo sparks outrage by killing healthy giraffe named Marius
"Protesters carrying banners gathered outside the zoo this morning and thousands of people signed a petition to rescue the giraffe, called Marius, after the Danish zoo announced it was planning to kill the animal because of European laws on inbreeding.
Other zoos, including the Yorkshire wildlife park in Britain, had offered to take it in.
But according to the Danish newspaper BT, Marius was fed some rye bread at 9.15am and was killed shortly after by a shot in the head with a bolt gun."
Couldn't they have simply neutered the animal? And what exactly is the "threat of inbreeding" for animals in captivity? Is an inbred giraffe in a zoo something we are supposed to worry about?
Also I find this a bit strange:
"Live footage of his body being dissected was streamed by Ekstra Bladet, showing zoo workers wearing green rubber gloves carrying out the dissection while an announcer guided the crowd through the process and fielded questions. Some of the meat was later fed to lions at the zoo."
I'm all for teaching kids the circle of life and all that but having kids gather around to watch a giraffe being butchers seems strange.
Mom - "Ooh kids! get your jackets on! Wanna go see Marius gutted?!"
Kids - "Yaaaay!"
"Protesters carrying banners gathered outside the zoo this morning and thousands of people signed a petition to rescue the giraffe, called Marius, after the Danish zoo announced it was planning to kill the animal because of European laws on inbreeding.
Other zoos, including the Yorkshire wildlife park in Britain, had offered to take it in.
But according to the Danish newspaper BT, Marius was fed some rye bread at 9.15am and was killed shortly after by a shot in the head with a bolt gun."
Couldn't they have simply neutered the animal? And what exactly is the "threat of inbreeding" for animals in captivity? Is an inbred giraffe in a zoo something we are supposed to worry about?
Also I find this a bit strange:
"Live footage of his body being dissected was streamed by Ekstra Bladet, showing zoo workers wearing green rubber gloves carrying out the dissection while an announcer guided the crowd through the process and fielded questions. Some of the meat was later fed to lions at the zoo."
I'm all for teaching kids the circle of life and all that but having kids gather around to watch a giraffe being butchers seems strange.
Mom - "Ooh kids! get your jackets on! Wanna go see Marius gutted?!"
Kids - "Yaaaay!"
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