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In reply to the discussion: Second Danish zoo plans to publicly dissect giraffe and feed to lions [View all]swilton
(5,069 posts)52. If they are so undesirable
in the gene pool - why were the parents bred in the first place????
This smacks of Western society's disposable culture.....The first Maurius could have had a home in a British zoo....
I'm sorry my belief in zoos is changing - non-human species deserve more than to be put on in some exhibition for a dissection class.
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No matter how far the little guy sticks his neck out, the lions will eventually get him. nt
valerief
Feb 2014
#1
We'd be even more outraged if it were happening in the USA and we knew about it ...
brett_jv
Feb 2014
#35
I view it as maximum utility out of an animal, that in the past, or even in the US,
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2014
#78
These people are fucking psychopaths. Who knew the Danish were this fucking mental?
TwilightGardener
Feb 2014
#3
I stand by my statements. Purposely breeding and then killing healthy animals
TwilightGardener
Feb 2014
#10
That's a side issue. I'm appalled at their treatment of these animals as
TwilightGardener
Feb 2014
#26
You're hung up on how they use a carcass. This isn't a meat/vegetarian thread.
TwilightGardener
Feb 2014
#30
I don't anthropomorphize, and yes, I would feel just as outraged if they were
TwilightGardener
Feb 2014
#43
No, I'm outraged because this animal was bred and raised by this zoo, and was taught to trust humans
hamsterjill
Feb 2014
#49
Another zoo would be in need of a male giraffe that is sufficiently genetically dissimilar..
X_Digger
Feb 2014
#58
In 1994, an okapi died at the Copenhagen Zoo due to stress from a nearby opera production
Aldo Leopold
Feb 2014
#29
Sigh. The comments EVEN IN FRIGGIN DU show why America needs better science education.
alp227
Feb 2014
#41
We are not robots. We do have emotions. Just because we use science to observe nature does not
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2014
#67
Not everything can be decided devoid of emotion. Again I say, do as you please. I will continue
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2014
#69
So you're just gonna evade the issue the zoo is addressing about genetic diversity?
alp227
Feb 2014
#70
every heard of birth control? Someone just posted that Woodland Park Zoo uses
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2014
#71
You think that farm kid who raises that pig doesn't cry the first time it happens?
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2014
#64
I'm extremely jealous. I would love to volunteer at the Woodland Park Zoo. I've heard the
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2014
#63
I have no problem with the dissection part if the animal died due to natural causes
Beacool
Feb 2014
#81