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Danish zoo kills healthy giraffe, feeds body to lions
CNN ^ | Feb 9, 2014 | Bharati Naik and Marie-Louise Gumuchian

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 ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: genetics; giraffe; zoo
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And they couldn't find a zoo that would take him, or it seems they didn't even try.
1 posted on 02/09/2014 1:37:26 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

It’s a metaphor for modern society.


2 posted on 02/09/2014 1:39:48 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Anti-Complacency League! Baby!)
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To: Innovative

Did it taste like chicken?


3 posted on 02/09/2014 1:39:49 PM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Innovative

Just cruel. Stupid Europeans.


4 posted on 02/09/2014 1:40:28 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Innovative

The Circle of Life.


5 posted on 02/09/2014 1:44:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Innovative
Was it this one?


6 posted on 02/09/2014 1:45:15 PM PST by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: Innovative

From the article: ‘”It is not possible to transfer the giraffe to another zoo as it will cause inbreeding,” it said.’


7 posted on 02/09/2014 1:45:52 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Innovative

It struck me as kind of sad, actually, to visit the San Diego zoo and see a lion licking hamberger off a rock in its cage. What would be interesting is if they allowed lions to actually hunt down live game in a large pen while the audience (yes, children included) could watch.


8 posted on 02/09/2014 1:46:12 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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If inbreeding was a concern, why didn’t they just turn him into a gelding?


9 posted on 02/09/2014 1:46:26 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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Lions eat giraffe’s, don’t they? What do they normally feed their lions, cows? Either one was probably fine with the lion.


10 posted on 02/09/2014 1:46:39 PM PST by centurion316
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"Did it taste like chicken?"
an Loin's *ROAR!* "..is that a "yes" or "no"?"
..go in the enclosure and find out.

11 posted on 02/09/2014 1:47:27 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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On average, he said some 20 to 30 animals, including goats, antelopes and wild boar, were culled for the same reason every year at the zoo.

Tuna-safe dolphin nets, anyone?

Seriously, though, I question the public dismemberment. That seems a little over the top, even if it was for "educational" purposes.

12 posted on 02/09/2014 1:48:40 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: Innovative

what in the world??


13 posted on 02/09/2014 1:48:51 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: kingu

So it’s biologically impossible to geld a giraffe, thereby keeping it out of the freaking gene pool?

[sounds like the Danes should ponder their own genetics, instead]


14 posted on 02/09/2014 1:49:05 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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If inbreeding was a concern, why didn’t they just turn him into a gelding?

From the article, it basically said that the animal would take up space needed for more viable members of the population. The zoo is part of a breeding program.

15 posted on 02/09/2014 1:49:43 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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Put the lions and giraffe in the same area, many acres so they have room to run, and let nature take its course. These people have no sense of showmanship educating urbanites to reality.
16 posted on 02/09/2014 1:51:00 PM PST by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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What would be interesting is if they allowed lions to actually hunt down live game in a large pen while the audience (yes, children included) could watch.

I've wondered that, too. We were at the National Zoo a couple of years ago and saw lions mating. My then-9 yr old kept saying "that girl lion doesn't sound too happy." We exited the area rather quickly.

17 posted on 02/09/2014 1:51:39 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And the head wookie complained that the lions weren’t eating the right kind of food.


18 posted on 02/09/2014 1:52:05 PM PST by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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To: ClearCase_guy

A guy on my local Christian radio station said something relevant, yesterday, when speaking about liberals defending ‘famous’ child molesters and rapists.

We live in a society that values the predators more than the prey.


20 posted on 02/09/2014 1:52:28 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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