A Danish Zoo Announced That They Would Not Be Killing A Giraffe

[Are_grits_groceries]

A Denmark zoo says that it has no plans to kill one of its healthy male giraffes after its European governing body decided not to send the zoo a female giraffe for the purposes of breeding.

The Jyllands Park Zoo said in a statement on its Facebook pageThursday that it would spare the giraffe after the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) informed officials that it would not be receiving a female "any time soon."

"As a result of this we will of course keep both our giraffes, as we have stated all along," the statement said. "There is no plan, and there has never been a plan to neither move or euthanize any of our giraffes."

The zoo sparked outcries earlier this week when it said that a 7-year-old male giraffe named Marius would have to be put down if the zoo received a female.
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They would have though.
I still don 't understand this.

I understand not wanting to inbreed the giraffes.
I even understand using the meat for the lions.
There is a wildlife park in England with a state-of-the-art giraffe house. They could use another one. If they are certified and do treat their animals properly, why not send it there?

[MADem]

1. Why not fix the damn thing? Snip, snip, and all that.... nt

[Maynar]

2. I read somewhere that

a neutered giraffe would take up scarce space and resources. Forget where I saw it, but it sounded like doublespeak to me. *shrug*

[MADem]

4. Resources? Good grief, isn't the idea of having giraffes in a doggone zoo so

that little kids can go and gawk at them?

Maybe they need to just rethink the whole mess. Look around and find a home for the darn thing, or give it the snip. I think it's horrible to cage/confine a wild creature in the first place, I much prefer those sorts of parks where they put the PEOPLE in the cage and drive them round to look at the animals roaming free!

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. A zoo in Copenhagen killed one giraffe named Marius.

This is a second zoo in Denmark with a giraffe named Marius. Go figure.

[MADem]

6. Apparently they lack imagination when naming giraffes, and dealing w/overpopulation! nt

[newfie11]

3. I thought they had already killed him

This is great news. I guess all the bad press and complaints changed their mind. GOOD!

[arthritisR_US]

7. Are you sure your not mixing this one with

the Copenhagen Marius?

[newfie11]

8. Oh yes I am

Thanks and darn. I was hoping I was wrong.