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Danish zoo kills healthy giraffe, feeds body to lions
CNN ^ | Feb 9, 2014 | Bharati Naik and Marie-Louise Gumuchian

Posted on 02/09/2014 1:37:26 PM PST by Innovative

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To: F15Eagle

Like many zoos, they have a planned breeding program, as the captive giraffe herds in the world’s zoos were becoming incredibly inbred. To try to combat this issue, they went to a strict breeding program around the world, transferring animals and sperm to restore biological diversity to the herds.

Most zoos aren’t as public with their culling as the Danes are, but ‘unauthorized’ animals are killed all the time around the world.


21 posted on 02/09/2014 1:56:29 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Salamander

did it come with a salad?


22 posted on 02/09/2014 1:56:43 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: kingu; PowderMonkey
From the article, it basically said that the animal would take up space needed for more viable members of the population.


23 posted on 02/09/2014 1:58:37 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: Innovative

Agree. Seems like a Hell of a way to deal with a surplus giraffe.


24 posted on 02/09/2014 2:06:35 PM PST by FAA
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To: workerbee

Have you ever heard stray cats having sex? It’s not a happy sound, it’s actually sort of creepy. But to a cat it’s something completely different.

Not to sound too much like a Monty Python episode or anything.


25 posted on 02/09/2014 2:07:16 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
--for amusement , suggest , as I have (especially to horse loving women) that some of those thousands of range horses penned up around the country be used for lion and tiger feed at the "big cat" refuges --they surely could use the meat--

--to really get a reaction, suggest doing it on Saturday afternoon , charge double--sure way to put a cat refuge in the black--

26 posted on 02/09/2014 2:10:01 PM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Salamander

“We live in a society that values the predators more than the prey”

Depends who the predators are? Take bullying. It happens, it’s natural. Libs put in laws that now turn the prey into the predator. See how well that is working out, The unintended consequence being “everyone” suffers except the new bullies.


27 posted on 02/09/2014 2:10:20 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: kingu

Hey,we have a spare giraffe. No one needs him? Lion food.

Imagine how the giraffes felt.”Wow, Gary drew the short straw. Bummer.”


28 posted on 02/09/2014 2:12:08 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: Innovative

It’s one of those “Circle of Life” kind of things.


29 posted on 02/09/2014 2:12:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Innovative

It’s likely that with certain animals, there isn’t a lot of varied DNA, in zoos world wide.


30 posted on 02/09/2014 2:14:00 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Have you ever heard stray cats having sex?

What Brian Setzer does on his private time is none of my business.

31 posted on 02/09/2014 2:14:15 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: rellimpank

I would never want a horse treated like that. Some of my best friends who got me out of real danger were in fact horses. That said, I don’t see the problem with eating a horse if as the last resort.


32 posted on 02/09/2014 2:15:19 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Innovative

He thought they were friends till dinner time came.

As a rule of thumb, if your going to eat it, don't name it.

33 posted on 02/09/2014 2:19:28 PM PST by ThomasThomas (It is your fault that I blame others for my actions!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Did you somehow miss this bit of context?

when speaking about liberals defending ‘famous’ child molesters and rapists.

34 posted on 02/09/2014 2:24:10 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

WTF?


35 posted on 02/09/2014 2:24:53 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder; workerbee

If you had thorny projections on your penis, your woman wouldn’t sound especially overjoyed, either.

:)


36 posted on 02/09/2014 2:26:33 PM PST by Salamander (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Bullying is certainly not natural. Typical schooling is totally unnatural, however. Bullying destroys lives, creates more problems than curbing it will, leaves behind a debris of emotionally-damaged individuals who go on to cause other problems as a result, perpetuating the disease.

I am all in favour of schools heavily coming down on bullies, even to the extent of chemical-psychiatric “management” of proven violent kids, to protect the other kids from harm.


37 posted on 02/09/2014 2:27:00 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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38 posted on 02/09/2014 2:27:07 PM PST by RedMDer (Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Salamander

Don’t be too hasty. Some might )


39 posted on 02/09/2014 2:28:44 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: FAA
Seems like a Hell of a way to deal with a surplus giraffe.

Couldn't get someone to take it, better to kill it and feed to the lions, then have the lions handle the whole process in front of the kiddies.

40 posted on 02/09/2014 2:29:31 PM PST by xone
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