A Danish zoo is facing a firestorm of international criticism (and death threats) after its employees publicly euthanized a healthy giraffe, dismembered its body and fed its remains to hungry leopards, lions and tigers.
All in front of a crowd of onlookers that included numerous young children …
The Copenhagen Zoo claims it euthanized the giraffe – an 18-month-old named Marius – to avoid inbreeding.
“Our giraffes are part of an international breeding program, which has a purpose of ensuring a sound and healthy population of giraffes,” the zoo’s research and conservation director said in a statement.
More than 27,000 people signed an online petition urging the zoo to spare Marius’ life. Meanwhile a British wildlife preserve offered him a permanent home – and an anonymous buyer offered nearly $700,000 to purchase the animal.
No such luck …
Our thoughts on all this? Hmmmmmm … you know, we’d honestly prefer not to stick our necks out too far on this one (ba doom ching).
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Incredible stupidity.
$700,000 would have bought an awful lot of cat food.
What ever happened to trading to another zoo or neutering. Total messed up mess.
Have you watched the news? They explained all of this. They tried to trade to another zoo but those zoos also follow the same breeding rules. They couldn’t sell to another exotic animal farm because giraffe’s are social animals which need to be around other giraffes. They could have neutered him, but he still needs a stall to live in, they still have to feed him, they still have to care for him. Space was better utilized for a giraffe that fell within their breeding guidelines. Do I agree with it, no… but I’m also not in the profession of raising exotic animals in a zoo either. Giraffe’s are not endangered and culled in the wild to strengthen the herd.
Can you imagine trialing this program with zoo animals for ultimate use in humans?
Maybe they already did in the concentration camps during the holocaust.
It’s the order in nature, the weak and old get pushed out of the herd. Mother Nature’s way of strengthening the herd. I’ll leave it at that.
don’t know that Marius was weak, he certainly wasn’t old – mother nature may have let him survive in the wild – but he just didn’t fit with the program – I guess the herd got strengthened so his keepers were happy.
I guess you know more than the zookeepers then, you might want to think about changing professions.
Is that an excuse for killing him and cutting apart in front of all those little children? (they call it “children education”… interesting… do my kids really need to know how to kill someone and cut him on pieces?) Why did they allow him to live for almost 2 years, if his genes were so bad? Why did they not make him “asleep” with an injection when he was just born? AND WHY DID THEY ALLOW HIS PARENTS TO MATE, when they knew that they will need to kill that baby???
How many parents complained, how many kids complained?
The giraffe wasn’t killed in front of the kids.
Maybe they spent two years trying to figure out what to do with him instead of killing him as soon as he was born.
When I was in grade school we took a trip to the butcher shop where we saw them cut up a pig and saw how meat went from the animal to the display case. Our parents were raised on farms where they saw and participated in the slaughtering of all kinds of animals. It’s people like you that are the reason kids today are so fucked up… can’t keep score, everybody gets a trophy, go to jail for spanking, adults aren’t allowed to raise their voice, social promotion in schools, and the list goes on and on.
Now go back to the PETA forum. People Eat Tasty Animals.
So….were 12 year old boys in charge of deciding to either sell the Giraffe or chop it up and watch big cats eat up the pieces?
I think they left that to the 8 year old girls.
“Kill the
piggiraffe. Cut her throat. Cut her throat.Cut her throat. Cut her throat.Cut her throat. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”Yummm… giraffe!
Can you imagine the bread you’d need for a giraffe neck sandwich?
That would be the hoagie Bun to end all hoagie buns.
neck bones and collard greens for the whole family.
“for the whole Clemson football team”
Now for the sons of bitches who like to post racist cockroachshit comments- bite me
why so seriousssah?
Here we go again, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/12/us-denmark-giraffe-idUKBREA1B29C20140212