Posted on 02/09/2014 1:37:26 PM PST by Innovative
An online petition to save a healthy young giraffe from death has failed, despite thousands of signatures from animal lovers.
Copenhagen Zoo said it euthanized the male, named Marius, on Sunday because of a duty to avoid inbreeding.
After an autopsy, "Marius" was dismembered in front of a zoo audience that included children, and fed to the zoo's lions.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Like many zoos, they have a planned breeding program, as the captive giraffe herds in the world’s zoos were becoming incredibly inbred. To try to combat this issue, they went to a strict breeding program around the world, transferring animals and sperm to restore biological diversity to the herds.
Most zoos aren’t as public with their culling as the Danes are, but ‘unauthorized’ animals are killed all the time around the world.
did it come with a salad?
Agree. Seems like a Hell of a way to deal with a surplus giraffe.
Have you ever heard stray cats having sex? It’s not a happy sound, it’s actually sort of creepy. But to a cat it’s something completely different.
Not to sound too much like a Monty Python episode or anything.
--to really get a reaction, suggest doing it on Saturday afternoon , charge double--sure way to put a cat refuge in the black--
“We live in a society that values the predators more than the prey”
Depends who the predators are? Take bullying. It happens, it’s natural. Libs put in laws that now turn the prey into the predator. See how well that is working out, The unintended consequence being “everyone” suffers except the new bullies.
Hey,we have a spare giraffe. No one needs him? Lion food.
Imagine how the giraffes felt.”Wow, Gary drew the short straw. Bummer.”
It’s one of those “Circle of Life” kind of things.
It’s likely that with certain animals, there isn’t a lot of varied DNA, in zoos world wide.
What Brian Setzer does on his private time is none of my business.
I would never want a horse treated like that. Some of my best friends who got me out of real danger were in fact horses. That said, I don’t see the problem with eating a horse if as the last resort.
He thought they were friends till dinner time came.
As a rule of thumb, if your going to eat it, don't name it.
when speaking about liberals defending famous child molesters and rapists.
WTF?
If you had thorny projections on your penis, your woman wouldn’t sound especially overjoyed, either.
:)
Bullying is certainly not natural. Typical schooling is totally unnatural, however. Bullying destroys lives, creates more problems than curbing it will, leaves behind a debris of emotionally-damaged individuals who go on to cause other problems as a result, perpetuating the disease.
I am all in favour of schools heavily coming down on bullies, even to the extent of chemical-psychiatric “management” of proven violent kids, to protect the other kids from harm.
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Don’t be too hasty. Some might )
Couldn't get someone to take it, better to kill it and feed to the lions, then have the lions handle the whole process in front of the kiddies.
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