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I stand corrected (I had read it in the UK news).
Outrage as healthy giraffe Marius is put down at Copenhagen Zoo
They gotta eat too. In the wild they would have been eating it while it was still half alive.
Danish zoo kills giraffe to prevent inbreeding | Mail Online
EAZA said it supported the zoo's decision to "humanely put the animal down and believes strongly in the need for genetic and demographic management within animals in human care."
However, the organization Animal Rights Sweden said the case highlights what it believes zoos do to animals regularly.
"It is no secret that animals are killed when there is no longer space, or if the animals don't have genes that are interesting enough," it said in a statement. "The only way to stop this is to not visit zoos."
"When the cute animal babies that attract visitors grow up, they are not as interesting anymore," said the organization.
Elisa Allen, spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in the U.K., said Marius' case should serve as a wake-up call for anyone who "still harbors the illusion that zoos serve any purpose beyond incarcerating intelligent animals for profit."
She said in a statement, "Giraffes rarely die of old age in captivity, and had Marius not been euthanized today, he would have lived out his short life as a living exhibit, stranded in a cold climate, thousands of miles away from his true home."
EAZA said it supported the zoo's decision to "humanely put the animal down and believes strongly in the need for genetic and demographic management within animals in human care."
However, the organization Animal Rights Sweden said the case highlights what it believes zoos do to animals regularly.
"It is no secret that animals are killed when there is no longer space, or if the animals don't have genes that are interesting enough," it said in a statement. "The only way to stop this is to not visit zoos."
"When the cute animal babies that attract visitors grow up, they are not as interesting anymore," said the organization.
Elisa Allen, spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in the U.K., said Marius' case should serve as a wake-up call for anyone who "still harbors the illusion that zoos serve any purpose beyond incarcerating intelligent animals for profit."
She said in a statement, "Giraffes rarely die of old age in captivity, and had Marius not been euthanized today, he would have lived out his short life as a living exhibit, stranded in a cold climate, thousands of miles away from his true home."
I am not a fan of ZOO's in the first place.
Leave the animals in their native lands.
Please save me the,"They will become extinct if left in their native lands"!
Take all the, "Zoo Money" and finance protected reserves for them at, "HOME"!
Come visit the ZOO DOMINICANO next to my house, then see what you think about "Zoo's"!
If you think most of the zoo's in the world are like Bush Garden..they AIN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!
The animals in most of the world
s zoo's would be better off EXTINCT!!!
At least they wouldn't be suffering then!
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Leave the animals in their native lands.
Please save me the,"They will become extinct if left in their native lands"!
Take all the, "Zoo Money" and finance protected reserves for them at, "HOME"!
Come visit the ZOO DOMINICANO next to my house, then see what you think about "Zoo's"!
If you think most of the zoo's in the world are like Bush Garden..they AIN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!
The animals in most of the world
s zoo's would be better off EXTINCT!!!
At least they wouldn't be suffering then!
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