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TonyKath:

--- Quote ---Doe-eyed Marius is unaware he is facing destruction due to European rules designed to avoid in-breeding.

Animal rights campaigners in Denmark are trying to save a healthy young giraffe at Copenhagen Zoo from being destroyed.  The zoo says it cannot keep the animal, named Marius, because of European rules to avoid in-breeding, and that attempts to find it a new home have failed.  Copenhagen Zoo says it needs to kill the giraffe before it becomes an adult and attempts to mate.

Campaigners say to do so would be barbaric.

Marius - a doe-eyed, perfectly healthy, 18-month-old giraffe - has been munching in his stall, blissfully unaware that he is about to face his executioner on Sunday, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Copenhagen.


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935

Terrible.  :oki: But don't let Kath see this or Marius will end up in our back garden!!

Tony

Maik:

--- Quote from: TonyKath on Saturday, 08 February, 2014 @ 19:34:57 ---
--- Quote ---European rules designed to avoid in-breeding... Copenhagen Zoo says it needs to kill the giraffe before it becomes an adult and attempts to mate.

Campaigners say to do so would be barbaric.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935
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Er...


--- Quote ---Late last year I had to castrate an animal……it was a giraffe.
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http://www.mypetonline.co.uk/news-and-features/celebrity-blogs/matt-brash-mrcvs/so-just-how-do-you-castrate-giraffe


On the other hand, Tony, having him in the garden would save you having to prune the trees

Maik:
Oh well, get the saw and ladder out, Tony:


--- Quote ---A bid to save a young giraffe from destruction at Copenhagen Zoo has failed, and the giraffe was put down on Sunday morning.

The UK's Yorkshire Wildlife Park - which has a state-of-the-art giraffe house and the capacity for an extra male - was among several zoos which put in a last-ditch offers to take Marius. It said it was "saddened" by the killing of the animal.

Stine Jensen, from Denmark's Organisation Against the Suffering of Animals, said the situation "should not have occurred".

"It just shows that the zoo is in fact not the ethical institution that it wants to portray itself as being, because here you have a waste product - that being Marius.

"Here we have a zoo which thinks that putting this giraffe down instead of thinking of alternatives is the best option," she said.

But Bengt Holst, scientific director at the Danish zoo, defended Marius's destruction, saying that giraffes had to be selected to ensure the best genes were passed down to ensure the animal's long-term survival.

He told the BBC it was a responsible practice on the part of zoos to manage their animal populations to ensure they remained healthy, with some 20-30 animals put down at Copenhagen Zoo in a typical year... The campaign to save him, he said, had gone "much too far".

Animal rights campaigners have described the move as barbaric and have accused the zoo of being unethical.

The director of a wildlife park in the Netherlands, Robert Krijuff, whose last-minute offer of a place was also rejected, said: "I can't believe it. We offered to save his life. Zoos need to change the way they do business."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935

Maik:

--- Quote ---In the chilly dawn of Sunday morning a healthy young giraffe in a Danish zoo was given its favourite meal of rye bread by a keeper – and then shot in the head by a vet.

The death of Marius, an 18-month-old giraffe considered useless for breeding because his genes were too common, was followed by his dissection in front of a large crowd, including fascinated-looking children, prompting outrage and protests around the world.

The controversy was fed further by startling images and video of the process, including a picture of a large chunk of meat with an unmistakably spotty hide being fed to the lions.

When a storm of protest broke over the news that the giraffe was to be killed... the zoo posted a detailed justification on its website.

The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, which monitors international standards and of which Copenhagen is a member, said it fully supported the decision of the zoo.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/09/marius-giraffe-killed-copenhagen-zoo-protests

Caution, video may be distressing:

Colleywobble:
Absolutely terrible! and what parents would let their children watch ,whilst it was being dissected. My Grandchildren would have loved to have seen him in the their local Wildlife Park at Doncaster. Our daughter is a farmer and they often have to have animals put down due to accident or illness but in 20years I have never known them to have the children about whilst this was happening. It is distressing enough for the adults never mind the children to witness. Sad People!!!

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