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Originally Posted by shcisamax

I have been following the killing of Marius from when the petition was released. I think breeding and then disposing of your "less important" abhorrent and don't understand why they just didn't geld him. What are your thoughts?

Danish zoo kills healthy giraffe, feeds body to lions - CNN.com

http://zoo.dk/BesogZoo/Nyhedsarkiv/2...20giraffe.aspx

They mention some problem with gelding animals in zoos. http://abcnews.go.com/International/...eding-22430192

I do find their reasoning a bit disturbing if they see themselves as caretakers of the zoo animals rather than their owners. Would not a good caretaker want a healthy giraffe to live for as long as it possibly could in whatever other healthy environment they could find for it? They need not have "sold" it to another caretaker but made some other kind of arrangement. It does not seem like they tried very hard to care for this giraffe.