Anger Erupts After Danish Zoo Kills a 'Surplus' Giraffe
New York Times
Nelson D. Schwartz
Maruis the giraffe died at the Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday. He was 2 years old. Maruis was killed by a shotgun and after a public autopsy he was feed to the zoos lions and other big cats. The administrators said that they had decided to kill Marius because his genes were well represented in the captive giraffes in the European zoos. This did not satisfy animal rights activists who made a large last minute campaign in order to save him.
The activists collected nearly 30,000 online signatures from people who did not want Marius killed. People from the Copenhagen zoo also received death threats after they turned down adoption offers from other zoos ad a bid of 500,000 euros from somebody to take Marius in.
Bengt Holst, the zoos scientific doctor said that he decided against send Marius to another zoo because in doing so would have opened the door to inbreeding and potentially removed a place for a giraffe whose genetic makeup was more valuable in terms of future off spring in captive breeding programs. For the people who offered the buy the giraffe the giraffe is a social animal and can't be kept in isolation.
Cruelty towards animals is an unthinkable thing to do and killing an animal with a good reason to do so. It is even worse the people at the Copenhagen Zoo had many other options for places they could bring Marius but instead they decided to kill the helpless animal. This was a truly vicious act towards animals and there should be laws against this from happening.
Bengt Holst, the zoos scientific doctor said that he decided against send Marius to another zoo because in doing so would have opened the door to inbreeding and potentially removed a place for a giraffe whose genetic makeup was more valuable in terms of future off spring in captive breeding programs. For the people who offered the buy the giraffe the giraffe is a social animal and can't be kept in isolation.
Cruelty towards animals is an unthinkable thing to do and killing an animal with a good reason to do so. It is even worse the people at the Copenhagen Zoo had many other options for places they could bring Marius but instead they decided to kill the helpless animal. This was a truly vicious act towards animals and there should be laws against this from happening.
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