Zoo kills Giraffe…

Can’t have too much inbreeding –just look at some of them in the Fens 🙂

they are getting really stupid now

Interestingly, I bought Mrs Moggy for Christmas an ‘experience’ gift, feeding the big cats at Banham Zoo.

It was incredibly enjoyable, and we learned there that their breeding is very strictly controlled, and can only go ahead after the ultimate destination of the cubs is agreed through a central ‘clearing house’ of worldwide zoos.

In the interim, all the fertile females are given contraception in their food.

That’s a properly run zoo.

Moggy

The director of that zoo missed his calling. He should be working for the abattoir instead.

And so it continues…

Danish zoo that killed Marius the giraffe puts down four lions

Copenhagen zoo says it has euthanised two old lions and two cubs to make way for a new male

A Danish zoo that prompted international outrage by putting down a healthy giraffe and dissecting it in public has killed two lions and their two cubs to make way for a new male.

“Because of the pride of lions’ natural structure and behaviour, the zoo has had to euthanise the two old lions and two young lions who were not old enough to fend for themselves,” Copenhagen zoo said.

The 10-month-old lions would have been killed by the new male lion “as soon as he got the chance”, it said.

The four lions were put down on Monday after the zoo failed to find a new home for them, a spokesman said. All four were from the same family.

He said there would be no public dissection of the animals since “not all our animals are dissected in front of an audience”.

Within a few days the new male will be introduced to the zoo’s two female lions, who have reached breeding age.

The zoo’s chief executive, Steffen Straede, said: “The zoo is recognised worldwide for our work with lions, and I am proud that one of the zoo’s own brood now forms the centre of a new pride of lions.”

Last month the zoo’s scientific director, Bengt Holst, received death threats over the decision to kill an 18-month-old giraffe, Marius, who was put down with a bolt gun before children were allowed to watch his body being chopped up, dissected and fed to lions.

The move shocked thousands of animal lovers around the world who had signed an online petition to save him. The zoo said on its website it had no choice but to prevent the animal attaining adulthood since under European Association of Zoos and Aquaria rules inbreeding between giraffes is to be avoided.

Many Danes were surprised and even angered by the international reaction to the event, with a leading expert on the ethics of the treatment of animals decrying the “Disneyfication” of zoo creatures.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/danish-copenhagen-zoo-kills-four-lions-marius-giraffe

Hate to think what happens if they decide that they are over staffed…

Local ornamental gardens has a ‘farm’ with a few pigs, llamas, sheep, a few ponies, guinea pigs, rabbits, and various fowl. We used to go there on a frequent basis since the kids liked it. Then rumours went around that they had killed one of their birds (a goose or similar, one of the bigger birds) with a hammer. On a visit my wife inquired about it and a manager apparently admitted that not only had it taken place but it was not the only occasion that one of the ‘resident’ had been euthanised in ways that had not involved a visit from a vet.
Recently we heard that their shire horse is being treated for an infection in one of its hooves – cue bad taste jokes about trying to put it down with a hammer…

Zoologists are a strange breed though, and often they have no interest in individual animals, just the species as a whole…

Why strange, Al? They are scientists and therefore study species and their interraction and evolution. Scientists need to remain objective in whatever field they study so I don’t find that strange.

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Was it because they had the wrong DNA ?

This sort of thing was one of the reasons I cut my ties with a local wildlife park many years ago.

My wife and I captive-bred endangered Scottish wildcats as part of an official rearing and release scheme, and I worked very closely with the wildlife park, the Zoological society, and was the ISIS international studbook keeper for the species, the first for many, many years.

Zoologists are a strange breed though, and often they have no interest in individual animals, just the species as a whole. Added to that, wildlife parks have financial considerations – getting punters through the doors, etc.

I would often help feed, or for hours just sit and watch, their pack of Canadian timber wolves. Absolutely fascinating – from memory I think it was around 18 males, females, and cubs.

But then the management decided one day they wanted European wolves instead, so one Sunday morning when the park was closed, a skeleton staff just went out and shot them all…

I’m not going to dignify that with a response, but I will leave this here, because it’s valentines day, and some giraffe love is needed.

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Nope 🙂 (I can go at this all night)

That’s not what’s written on the toilet wall…;o)

Anyway, dead giraffe anybody?

Nope 🙂 (I can go at this all night)

No, I think you’ll find…yer wrong!

There was a recent wildlife program that had two males fighting, which said that fatal injuries frequently result from such horseplay.
To prevent vets bills with astronomic figures arriving zoos keep either males separated from females or one male with his harem.
I agree – they shouldn’t kill him. You are still wrong though…;o)

no, you’re wrong.

Bu@@er, I thought my phone was ringing but it must have been the irony alarm…

Touche!!

more often than not the fights ( known as necking) don’t result in injury at all, and quite frequently males have been observed courting, and mounting each other after necking. So I think they should just leave them to it.

My view remains – they shouldn’t kill him.

in the highly unlikely event that one seriously injures or kills the other, I shall bow down to you and tell you I was wrong.

There was a recent wildlife program that had two males fighting, which said that fatal injuries frequently result from such horseplay.
To prevent vets bills with astronomic figures arriving zoos keep either males separated from females or one male with his harem.
I agree – they shouldn’t kill him. You are still wrong though…;o)

Bu@@er, I thought my phone was ringing but it must have been the irony alarm…

Well, long story writ short http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history

You must have missed the irony in my earlier exchanges….!:rolleyes:

Great girl ! I like her style. I think I’d have something else ‘stiff’.

It would appear another Girraffe is possibly on the menu