Shouldn’t we be more concerned about the growth in elephant poaching for ivory about which not a word here rather than an isolated incident carried out to prevent species inbreeding in the zoo?
Not going to mention the rules and regulations in Europe that caused this, then?;o)
They have just interviewed the people from Longleat on Radio 5 this morning.The female had a brain defect which looked like it was passed on to the cubs and they attacked and injured a male who was suffering for his wounds.
“In a statement, the Wiltshire park said it had no choice but to put down a lioness and her cubs because they displayed “odd aggressive behaviour”.
A sixth lion was destroyed after the lioness attacked it.”
Hmm, sounds like a reason, but also an excuse does it not?
No real proof of a brain defect, other than the apparent violence (from a big cat!!?), at a time when it is becoming difficult to pass on excess lions due to over breeding: doesn’t sound fishy at all.
It’s obvious that many of you must be vegetarians. You obviously don’t eat meat reared for that purpose nor then are you familiar with the processing of beef cattle thru’ slaughterhouse accompanied by the mournful lowing of said cattle very much aware of their fate.
The difference is that the cattle are there to become food, whereas the lions are alien to Britain, just there as a demonstration of what is around in other parts of the world.
Whether you like their work or not, would you tell Banksy or Damien Hirst to stop working or destroy some of their work because there was too much art out there?
Or, closer to home, would you scrap some Spitfires to accommodate those being found or built from sraps and wreckage?
If there are no more Tigers – a beautiful creature indeed – in a decade, I cannot admit to any very strong feelings about that fact.
Might make replacing your genuine tiger skin posing pouch a little difficult, and that is the problem: if they die out naturally, without our help (like the pandas), then fine, but if they die out because some moron wants the skin for a coat for his mistress or whatever then that is the tragedy.
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