Danes Kill Gentle Giraffe
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I just saw that.
It's atrocious.
A zoo in England offer to relocated the giraffe but they refuse.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...iraffe-and-feed-him-to-the-lions-9116786.html
It's atrocious.
A zoo in England offer to relocated the giraffe but they refuse.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...iraffe-and-feed-him-to-the-lions-9116786.html
Only if they defend their actions.
PS: The alleged reason for killing the healthy young giraffe was, that it had an un-desireable gene makeup for the EU zoo breeding programs. I do not quite understand why it could not have been shipped to Africa to live on a game farm. Maybe shipping a giraffe is too costly, I imagine it need a special container and must go by sea, not in an airplane or heaven forbid a heliocopter.
Cough, cough, cough!
As I understand it they had offers from both England and Scotland and were both were non-breeding locations.
At the size of that particular giraffe the RAF might have been willing to fly it.
I read that also, that a zoo in England would take the animal. My understanding is that the EU had something to do with it. Or maybe the Copenhagen Zoo had run out of lion feed.
I don't think you can take a giraffe on an airplane. They are pretty tall.
You are so well connected in military circles, Did the RAF offer to transpost Marius?
Said giraffe was 18 months old. The RAF flies C-17's
The RCAF has offered to carry elephants, the USAF has also carried elephants as well as caribou and musk oxen. That is merely what I know of. You will also note my use of the word "might" in post #12. When you don't ask, how do you know?
If you have ever been on a safari in Africa, you will know that giraffes are considerably taller than elephants. I still think they are hard to fit into an airplane. And heaven forbid they go anywhere near a heliocopter. If they could fly him to England, they could also have flown him to Africa.
But maybe the copenhagen Zoo ran out of lion feed, or wanted to give the lions some of their natural food. What do I know.
The zoo has received thousand and thousands of death threats after the death of Marius.
I do not disagree. The Zoo said that normally they give the lions horse meat, and that they do not see any difference between killing a horse or killing a giraffe.
The late Marius the giraffe is the one in the center front - you can see his size as compared with the full grown giraffes.
