I believe they used a captive bolt.
Posted on 02/10/2014 5:18:02 PM PST by Innovative
Staff at a Danish zoo where a healthy giraffe was put down have received death threats as debate rages online over the killing, which took place despite a petition signed by thousands of animal lovers.
Several staff members were targeted after the animal, named Marius, was shot Sunday, Copenhagen Zoo spokesman Tobias Stenbæk Bro told CNN on Monday.
The Copenhagen Zoo said it "euthanized" Marius to avoid inbreeding. A veterinarian shot Marius with a rifle as he leaned down to munch on rye bread, a favorite snack. After an autopsy the giraffe was dismembered in front of an audience that included children and fed to the zoo's lions, tigers and leopards.
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I believe they used a captive bolt.
Don’t be ridiculous. As was pointed out in one article, the urbanisation of the Danish population is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and many Danes are no more than one generation removed from the farm.
They therefore are less inclined to have the absurd disneylike anthropomorphic view of animals that people in the US and UK have. The Giraffe was humanely killed with a bolt gun, like most of the animals you probably eat off your plate, and it was dissected as an educational tool and then given to the zoo’s carnivores instead of some anonymous but less cute and considerably more boring livestock sourced from a local abbatoir that would have been their usual staple.
See my post #22.
Hahahaha......
You almost owed me a new laptop for that.
/johnny
Are you SERIOUS?
This giraffe was killed, and almost certainly lived, way more humanely than most large-agri cattle, pigs and poultry. Or are they not beautiful and innocent too? I can't say I'm crazy about the dismemberment being public, but no one was forced to stand there and watch, either.
Get a grip. Most zoos are part of breeding programs. There is only so much room before culling needs to happen, and it happens in every zoo, among nearly all animals. Not just the fuzzy cute ones that CNN decides to highlight.
not knowing all the details leaves me less than authoritative on this one
they refereed to the animal as a healthy.
that being said I have to question what the overarching need to kill it in the open.. at the zoo could have been.
Considering private interests offered to pay over 600,000 dollars for him, that's a pretty stupid f--ing "bottom line." Sure hope you're not trying to run a business that way, einstein.
You and Tennessee Nana have the best observations.
“They shoulda let the lions do the killing.”
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Do you like dog fights too?
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Oh so what do lions do in the wild? Perhaps they call out for delivery?
Then why did they allow his parents to breed? Then they would not have had to “cull” him. I guess they only needed him when he was a little baby, cute, and drew ticket-purchasing crowds. Your large-agri livestock that you mention almost certainly are not given the intense human attention that Marius was, and so do not develop the innnocent trust Marius did of his humans. It was the trust he learned to gift humans with that they deviously used to kill him.
/johnny
Oh cmon Johnny, people should buy their meat at the market. Where no animals are hurt.
They thought it was a human baby.
The lion might have a different opinion.
/johnny
The situation with the unfortunate giraffe has some implications for Obamacare. It was in a zoo where just the exoticity of the creature should have been plenty of reason to keep and exhibit him. But he was deemed to be not profitable for his society so his government decided to put him down. Well, government bureaucrats are in charge of Americans’ decisions on health and medicine now. They decide what treatments one will be allowed to have or whether one has enough usefulness to his society to get any treatment at all. How far is that from a bureaucratic decision to put a citizen down because he is 66 years old, has no productiveness left in him, and his Social Security is a burden to the society?
/johnny
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