[A CA Guy]

They couldn’t give the baby to another zoo?

[Innovative]

See post 57 on the other thread, EinNYC’s post:

“A British zoo offered to take him. People raised $680,000 to buy him. But this crap zoo insisted on killing this poor animal who had grown to trust them, had never known anything but a kind hand from them—so they could publicly dissect him for pseudoscientific reasons and then feed him to lions? This “zoo” should be closed for cruelty to animals.”

[Blood of Tyrants]

The genes of that giraffe were already common in the European gene pool.

[PAR35]

The zoo leadership would rather kill it than sell it to another accredited zoo that had a space for it.

[Figment]

cats gotta eat

[MrEdd]

That would require a functioning intellect.