This video from the Netherlands says about itself (translated):
Giraffe Marius is as example of wrong breeding policies
11 Feb 2014
Esther Ouwehand, Member of Parliament of the Party for the Animals, is asking the State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Sharon Dijksma, to change zoos’ breeding policies.
From daily The Guardian in Britain:
Second giraffe named Marius at risk of being put down in Denmark
Jyllands Park zoo says it may kill male giraffe to make way for female, days after death at Copenhagen zoo sparked outcry
Wednesday 12 February 2014 17.30 GMT
Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen
If you are a giraffe and your name is Marius, now might be a good time to leave Denmark.
Days after the euthanasia of a healthy young giraffe at Copenhagen zoo sparked controversy around the world, a second Danish zoo has announced that it is considering a similar fate for another giraffe – also named Marius.
Jyllands Park zoo, in western Denmark, currently has two male giraffes, but has been approved to participate in the European breeding programme. If zookeepers manage to acquire a female giraffe, seven-year-old Marius will have to make way.
Like his namesake in Copenhagen, the giraffe is considered unsuitable for breeding, and the zoo said there was a high risk that Marius would have to be put down as it would be difficult to find him a new home.
Janni Løjtved Poulsen, zookeeper at Jyllands Park, said it was not clear when the park would acquire a female giraffe and that the decision on Marius’s future would be taken by the breeding programme co-ordinator.
“If we are told we have to euthanise [Marius] we would of course do that,” said Poulsen.
She said the park managers would not to be influenced by the wave of protests that followed the killing of 18-month-old Marius at Copenhagen zoo.
More than 27,000 people around the world signed a petition to save the Copenhagen giraffe, and zoo officials said they had received death threats after the animal was put down, dissected in front of a large crowd and fed to lions.
“It doesn’t affect us in any way. We are completely behind Copenhagen and would have done the same,” said Poulsen.
Jyllands Park zoo has not decided whether they would also carry out a public dissection.
Poulsen said she had been surprised to discover there was a second giraffe named Marius in Denmark. The Jyllands Park giraffe had been named after a former vet at the zoo, she said. “We thought it was amusing that there was another Marius among the giraffes when there aren’t that many giraffes in Denmark overall.”
Petition here:
Tell Copenhagen Zoo it is time for a thorough review of their current breeding policy and remind them that the public’s opinion DOES matter when it comes to deciding the fate of animals in their care.
See also here.
The same zoo that graphically killed a giraffe in front on visitors has euthanized four healthy lions.
Thousands of zoo animals killed in Europe yearly: here.
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I read a quote from the vet of the first theatre of slaughter they did on Marius (The first), he said something like the zoos offering places for him had to or should reserve those places for more genetically important specimens. Yeah, I wonder how important a specimen he is. Despicable.
9 February 2014 Last updated at 13:12 GMT
Marius giraffe death ‘saddens’ South Yorkshire zoo
A South Yorkshire wildlife park has said it was “saddened” to hear a young giraffe had been put down at a Danish zoo.
Marius the giraffe was killed after Copenhagen Zoo said it had no choice but to destroy the animal because of its duty to avoid in-breeding.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP), near Doncaster, had offered to rehome Marius, but said its bid was rejected.
YWP was among several zoos which put in last-ditch offers to take the giraffe.
A park spokesman said: “Yorkshire Wildlife Park is saddened to hear reports from Copenhagen that 18-month-old giraffe Marius has been euthanized.”
‘All bids considered’
He said the park had contacted Copenhagen Zoo when news of the giraffe’s plight was revealed.
“YWP has a state of the art giraffe house, built in 2012, with a bachelor herd of four male giraffes and the capacity to take an extra male, subject to the agreement of the European stud book keeper,” he added.
“One of the YWP giraffes is Palle, who came from Copenhagen Zoo in September 2012, when he was the same age as Marius.”
The park said without knowing the full details it would be inappropriate to comment further.
Marius was due to be killed by a bolt gun, not a lethal injection, which would contaminate the meat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-26108366
Yep they took the cheaper way out, cheaper on moving/relocating him and free meat. He didn’t have to breed, though as far as I’m concerned it’s not for people or anyone to be making breeding choices for others anyway, and the public in the West are always disgusted when they hear of people having been used in such experiments but don’t blink an eye for others and seem to think ‘conservation’ only applies to other species. People elsewhere though still inter-marry and some still put down undesirable ‘products’ of it, peerages in the West just tend to keep them hidden in the country family home or an institution.
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I think the Jyllands Park zoo bosses discuss this, as maybe they think more of the zoo as a money-making bureaucracy then as an organisation with responsibility for living animals.
Its a horrible thought and makes me wonder if the bosses of the zoo need to consider if they are in the right jobs.
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I’m sad and very angry!! Can you imagine the ones we don’t know about???
Yes, it makes one wonder what these two Danish zoos do with less conspicuous animals.
GM ….. I read somewhere that they had dissected other animals as well including goats and snakes but that a giraffe had been a first. :-(
I had not read that. If they have dissected other animals after they had died natural deaths, then it is not such a problem, but it is if they killed them especially for it.
Any comment on the monkeys caged in British laboratory’s for what seems cruel experimentation, I am disturbed by these scientists who appear intelligent, yet disconnected from this life form who are genetically closely connected to humans, how is this possible?
I have seen monkeys in cages as pictorial images, that are I understand are captive in Britain’s laboratories, I believe most of these institutes or companies are covert in operating these experiments.
Zoo’s are prisons for animals, these animals are incarcerated for no crime committed by these animals, the criminals are all those who are able to make moral judgement’s, who perpetrate this folly.
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Good grief! – don’t let them have any more giraffes.
Indeed. This butchery should stop.
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Hard to believe the officiousness and callousness of those who are in control of the fate of these animals, as summary executioners.
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I hate what Zoos became.
Why can there not be Zoos without having actual animals captivated ?
http://betterymagazine.com/stories/a-zoo-without-animals/
It could be possible, no ?
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