Copenhagen Zoo euthanizes four lions

March 25, 2014
AP

The Copenhagen Zoo faced worldwide criticism from other zoos and animal sanctuaries last month when it euthanized a healthy giraffe named Marius instead of finding him a new home.

Now, once again, rather than giving the endangered animals to another zoo, the zoo has euthanized four healthy lions — two adults and their two 10-month-old cubs, according to news reports.

The zoo is introducing a male lion and cited in a statement the need to not disrupt the "pride's natural structure and behavior," according to the Associated Press.

On Feb. 9, Marius the giraffe was shot in the head, dissected in public, then fed to the zoo's lions.

"Marius hasn't made us the least bit afraid. Because what we are doing is the most correct thing to do," Steffen Stræde, the zoo's chief, told Ritzau, a Danish news agency, The Copenhagen Post reports."I think people are more enlightened after Marius," a smiling Stræde said in the interview.

Accredited American zoos do not euthanize endangered species because these zoos use relocation and contraceptive techniques to prevent inbreeding and overpopulation.




the fuck kind of seriel killer zookeeper is running things over there? hopefully some animal rights extremist tosses him in with a polar bear. fuck

this fucking nazi





The Copenhagen Zoo: keeping endangered species endangered since 1859.

obviously telling other countries what to do is a sticky subject but you'd figure there was some international zoo council or something of that nature that would prevent this type of shit from happening.

Zoos in general make me uncomfortable.
i completely appreciate the fact that they do valuable work in the conservation of species, raise awareness and educate, but there is something so Victorian and weird about going to see wild animals in cages.
i genuinely believe that in the future zoos will be viewed as morally bizarre.

Originally posted by: Davey.

Zoos in general make me uncomfortable.
i completely appreciate the fact that they do valuable work in the conservation of species, raise awareness and educate, but there is something so Victorian and weird about going to see wild animals in cages.
i genuinely believe that in the future zoos will be viewed as morally bizarre.

yup. i think the first time i started noticing there was something wrong with zoos was when i saw some kid laughing that a limping elephant was walking in circles and eating its own shit, and i realized that besides the fact that this sadistic piece of shit kid was a much lower life form than that elephant, that this wasn't normal behavior for the animal and that it was going insane, and that most of the higher mammals there must be as well. this is why it has been traditionally so difficult to get so many to breed in captivity - they're fucking miserable, profoundly miserable. some of them range hundreds of miles in their natural habitats, and here they are in some 20 x 20 decorated prison cell for the rest of their lives. and then when you consider the fact that the average animal is thousands of times more perceptive than any human, any delusion that they don't notice all the spoiled, entitled children with their spoiled, entitled parents watching them is also just a convenient moral rationalization. sucks.

i'd love to see all the money spent to maintain zoos used to buy and maintain actual habitat around the world. if you want to see wild animals, install digital video cams in their actual habitat so you can invade their privacy without them actually knowing. compared to that possibility, there's just something really creepy, shitty and diseased about even wanting to go gawk at a psychologically crushed, futureless, joyless, captive sentient being in a cage with no privacy and no life, just so you can get to be 10 feet from it and hear it breathe, eat, etc., and let it know that even your retarded children have more power and freedom than it does now.

but yeah, this guy is a major piece of shit. i wonder how many more times he's going to kill helpless, healthy, and often endangered animals there before the locals realize he's maybe a bit off. there are nicer zoos and much nicer sanctuaries in other countries that would have happily paid to take this family of lions and that giraffe. dude is just fucking evil.




actual photo of Marius the giraffe days before he was killed

Zoos need to go away. Also any Circus and people who keep wild animals as pets need to be fined heavily.

I don't mind the idea of a zoo but I don't think they need to be open to the public. I think half the reason that the animals are so miserable is because they have people gawking, shouting, and just generally tormenting these creatures day in and day out. Using them to temporarily house them as they try to rebuild the population of endangered species is fine but they don't need to be placed on display. If you want to see an African elephant, go to fucking Africa. While I appreciate the animals and think it's a beautiful thing to see them, I'll give up my own selfish pleasure for them to be where they need to be doing what they please.

The circus is the worst. Sea World is a close second.

Originally posted by: WREN

If you want to see an African elephant, go to fucking Africa

Ehh... A lot of people would probably not give two shits about elephant conservation if they didn't have one presented to them in real life in a place convenient to get to from home. Zoos are definitely weird and I agree with you all but they do serve their purpose in this regard - they expose people to and educate them about animals that they realistically would never see otherwise. Basically what Davey said.

went to the philly zoo (we are members) this past weekend....love watching the Gorillas

Originally posted by: Dickscraper

Originally posted by: WREN

If you want to see an African elephant, go to fucking Africa

Ehh... A lot of people would probably not give two shits about elephant conservation if they didn't have one presented to them in real life in a place convenient to get to from home. Zoos are definitely weird and I agree with you all but they do serve their purpose in this regard - they expose people to and educate them about animals that they realistically would never see otherwise. Basically what Davey said.

I was very blunt with my statement because ultimately that would be the best case scenario. There are (very few) positives about zoos, education being one of them. However, the animals being there all their lives is sad. Basically it comes down to people being dogshit because alot of the endangered species are that way because we suck as a species.

I have gone to the zoo as recent as last May in Hawaii (it's been 10 years prior to that) and it's still a weird experience for me. I'm also not the savage shitty kid yelling at them and banging on the glass.

i cant wait until bears figure out how to steal guns, use them, and enslave the human race so i can be selectively bred with fat bitches and then euthanized mercifully to end my shitty exhibition existence.

Originally posted by: Davey.

Zoos in general make me uncomfortable.

Yes, me too. Specially older zoos and "private" zoos. They have even less space for the animals.

Originally posted by: DrivebyFork

Zoos need to go away. Also any Circus and people who keep wild animals as pets need to be fined heavily.

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this. although i almost feel the need to visit the animals in them right now like they're sick parents in the hospital or something. add lonely and scared to the adjectives list though.

fuck the god dam zoo

So.. the giraffe was killed and fed to the lions. Then the lions were killed. What animal are they feeding the lions to and how long until they kill that animal as well?

Also, these are fucking living animals, not that box of floppy disks floating around your office that have been obsolete for decades!

Zoo’s Public Dissection of Lion Makes Denmark Again a Target of Outrage Oct 16, 2015 AFP

A Danish zoo on Thursday dissected a lion in front of a group of children, in an educational event condemned as a "macabre spectacle" by animal rights groups but given a thumbs-up by many Danes.

The nine-month-old lion was one of three that Odense Zoo in central Denmark put down in February, on the grounds it had too many big cats.

Last year, a zoo in the capital Copenhagen came under fire after a healthy giraffe was euthanised and dissected in public and fed to lions, followed several months later by the euthanization of several of the lions it was fed to.



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