Fiat500 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Don't know about anyone else but I was upset to here they have put the giraffe down in Copenhagen despite Doncaster offering it a home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Teachshef Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvp82 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Link ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki-red Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 The UK's Yorkshire Wildlife Park - which has a state-of-the-art giraffe house and the capacity for an extra male - was among several zoos which reportedly put in a last-ditch offers to take Marius in. From... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935 What a horrible story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spats Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26098935 Very sad news. Yorkshire Wildlife Park had offered to take him but they went ahead & killed him anyway. They now plan to feed to him to the big cats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epic Fail Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 The giraffe is being used for food and research now though, so I don't really see a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spats Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 The point is that YWP had offered a space for Marius where he would live with their other bachelor giraffes & not used for breeding. The Zoo's argument was that his breeding genes were not required therefor 'surplus'. YWP has a state of the art giraffe house built in 2012 with a bachelor herd of 4 male giraffes and the capacity to take an extra male, subject to the agreement of the European stud book keeper. One of the YWP giraffes is Palle, who came from Copenhagen Zoo in September 2012, when he was the same age as Marius. So from a humane point of view Marius did not need to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiat500 Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 The point is that YWP had offered a space for Marius where he would live with their other bachelor giraffes & not used for breeding. The Zoo's argument was that his breeding genes were not required therefor 'surplus'. So from a humane point of view Marius did not need to die. I agree, he did not need to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncocker Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Giraffes are selfish...always runnin around lookin after number one, getting struck by lightning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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