A synopsis of the article: they had a healthy 18 month old male giraffe that they wanted to prevent from inbreeding, so they killed it with a bolt gun, gave it a public autopsy and fed it to the lions. It sure showed all those present where their meat comes from! I found the financial incentives from animal rights groups not to kill it rather laughable; those lions need other animals to die in order to be fed, why discriminate what the source is, especially when its from a source that they'd actually kill & eat if they weren't captive in the first place!
That leather would make for a cool .... something.
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My daughter sent me that link earlier. My first thought was "Are they nuts - the "antis" will have a field day."
Thinking about it - I would have loved to take my kids there. They would have been off the charts interested. They are so interested when we field dress elk and deer.
But you read some of the responses. They are likening the parents who took there kids there to watch as Nazis. Sigh. People sure have huge balls on the other side of a computer screen.
It noted that there wasn't space for a male in accredited zoo's, and the other option would be circuses or facilities that couldn't guarantee proper care in adherence to the zoo's mandate. Sending to its homeland would have it dead within the week, having no herd of its own or experience living in the wild & evading predators.
If it could be trained & saddled like a horse it would make a pretty cool hunting ride. Just mount a GoPro to its head for scouting purposes
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This Danish Zoo teaches more than other zoos
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