Zoos are not just about breeding. They are suppose express concern for life. Zoos educate the public about their world by having and witnessing direct contact with animals other than the dogs and cats in their neighborhood. Maintaining a breeding program is a deranged purpose for zoos. These animals are not a 'commodity' they are living, breathing beings.
If this is the result of their breeding programs, they don't deserve them in the first place. If these zoos are to maintain their licenses, they have to be suspended from any breeding program. This is completely irresponsible purpose of any zoo.
This form of cruelty is more about the cruelty to those that attend zoos. It exposes some sincere heartache and sorrow to the public. These are not natural deaths of long loved members of the community that attends and supports zoos. This is inhumane from every angle of zoo confinement of these animals whom were born within them.
February 13, 2014
Copenhagen: The Danish Jyllands Park Zoo (click here) said it might put down one of its giraffes, which by coincidence is also named Marius, the same as the giraffe killed by Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday, according to Danish news agency Ritzau.
Staff at Copenhagen Zoo have received death threats after the zoo killed the 18-month-old healthy male giraffe because the animal's genes were already well represented in an international breeding programme that aims to maintain a healthy giraffe population in European zoos.
If this is the result of their breeding programs, they don't deserve them in the first place. If these zoos are to maintain their licenses, they have to be suspended from any breeding program. This is completely irresponsible purpose of any zoo.
This form of cruelty is more about the cruelty to those that attend zoos. It exposes some sincere heartache and sorrow to the public. These are not natural deaths of long loved members of the community that attends and supports zoos. This is inhumane from every angle of zoo confinement of these animals whom were born within them.
February 13, 2014
Copenhagen: The Danish Jyllands Park Zoo (click here) said it might put down one of its giraffes, which by coincidence is also named Marius, the same as the giraffe killed by Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday, according to Danish news agency Ritzau.
Staff at Copenhagen Zoo have received death threats after the zoo killed the 18-month-old healthy male giraffe because the animal's genes were already well represented in an international breeding programme that aims to maintain a healthy giraffe population in European zoos.
