Danish zoo shoots giraffe

weenie · 09-02-2014, 17:49

How sick

Just cruel if you ask me ...

Two zoo's had offered to take this young healthy beautiful creature ...

A healthy giraffe has been put down and publicly fed to lions despite an online campaign to save him.

Marius was shot dead with a bolt gun at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark on Sunday to prevent inbreeding.

Visitors, including children, were invited to watch the giraffe being skinned and fed to the animals.

Sirius · 09-02-2014, 17:57

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Originally Posted by weenie

How sick

Just cruel if you ask me ...

Two zoo's had offered to take this young healthy beautiful creature ...

A healthy giraffe has been put down and publicly fed to lions despite an online campaign to save him.

Marius was shot dead with a bolt gun at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark on Sunday to prevent inbreeding.

Visitors, including children, were invited to watch the giraffe being skinned and fed to the animals.

They just wanted to save money on meat for the lions

weenie · 09-02-2014, 18:09

The reasons given as to why they did this are truly shocking just beggars believe TBH nasty nasty people who made this decision ... really sad

Death is part of life but cruelty isn't ...

Taf · 09-02-2014, 18:32

If the last of the wild creatures are only to be found in Zoos, then it is the responsibility of Zoos to keep them healthy. Inbreeding might be their death knell if it is allowed to happen. A serious shame, but a reality.

weenie · 09-02-2014, 18:46

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If the last of the wild creatures are only to be found in Zoos, then it is the responsibility of Zoos to keep them healthy. Inbreeding might be their death knell if it is allowed to happen. A serious shame, but a reality.

They did not need to kill as they were offers of a new home ...

another choice should have been made in this case and the choice should have been life.
They had a choice to be kind and not kill this baby Giraffe ... Shame on them for making this choice ... truly shocking that the person is in charge of animals...

v0id · 09-02-2014, 19:26

The Danes aren't the only ones that kill healthy zoo animals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-26108506

weenie · 09-02-2014, 19:54

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The Danes aren't the only ones that kill healthy zoo animals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-26108506

It say's lions destroyed due to violence and for what I can see no other home was offered to these animals unlike Marius the giraffe ... but unfortunately both these cases were the fault of poor management in my opinion. Once again it's the animals who suffer, yet I am at a loss to who the real animals are in these sad cases...very poor management in both cases ... A Danish promoter living in Los Angeles was quoted as saying he had found a buyer for him. Claus Hjelmbak told the Ekstrabladet newspaper: "One of my close friends, a billionaire, said that he wanted to transfer a few million so we could save the giraffe. "He could easily have lived in his garden in Beverly Hills, but the zoo director was not interested in a sale.

**Maggy** · 09-02-2014, 22:28

Well that's one Zoo that I'll make a point of avoiding if I should ever go to Copenhagen.

weenie · 09-02-2014, 22:56

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Well that's one Zoo that I'll make a point of avoiding if I should ever go to Copenhagen.

You and me both Maggy disgraceful and disgusting isn't it ?

10-02-2014, 03:01

I thought the idea of zoo's was to preserve these animals personally i think the people working at copenhagen zoo involved in this should consider a job change because they are lousy at the one they have. Absolutely disgusting that this happened and perverse to allow public viewing of the skinning i wouldn't have let my kids within a mile of it.

denphone · 10-02-2014, 06:32

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Well that's one Zoo that I'll make a point of avoiding if I should ever go to Copenhagen.

l totally agree as l find what they did absolutely abhorrent as surely there are many zoo's in Europe who would love to have a giraffe.

RichardCoulter · 10-02-2014, 08:01

This is absolutely shocking behaviour.

RichardCoulter · 10-02-2014, 10:21

Watching about this on the news at the moment.

They say they didn't want it to breed because of it's genes, i'm sure it must be possible to sterilise a giraffe as a more acceptable solution.

The zoo say they can't understand what all the fuss is about and invited children to watch and make recordings of the killing and subsequent dismembering on their 'phones

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

Well that's one Zoo that I'll make a point of avoiding if I should ever go to Copenhagen.

I think that everybody should boycott this zoo. I'm pretty confident that there will be some sort of campaign as animal activists are furious about this atrocity.

Graham M · 10-02-2014, 10:24

If they were worried about inbreeding, why not put it in a separate enclosure? Failing that, the giraffe was offered a home from lots of different places, why ignore these?

**Chris** · 10-02-2014, 10:26

I would speculate that a sterile giraffe is of little use if the zoo has a breeding programme. It's just a mouth to feed. Turning the mouth into feed was probably quite logical and in all likelihood what would have happened in the wild anyway.

I think some of you need to wind the hysteria in a bit. It is an animal which has led a charmed life compared to any of its wild ancestors and has suffered a fate no worse than any other giraffe that ever lived.