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Second Danish zoo plans to kill young giraffe to stop inbreeding
Fox ^ | 2/13/14

Posted on 02/13/2014 3:23:19 PM PST by workerbee

**SNIP**

The second giraffe, coincidentally also named Marius, lives at the Danish Jyllands Park Zoo. To make room for a female giraffe it plans to acquire, the zoo plans to put down its 7-year-old male, balancing out genders in the facility.

“We can't have two males and one female. Then there will be fights,” zoo keeper Janni Lojtved Poulsen told Danish news agency Ritzau. “If the breeding program coordinator decides that he should be put down, then that's what we'll do,” Poulsen said.

**SNIP**

"It is no secret that animals are killed when there is no longer space, or if the animals don't have genes that are interesting enough," the group said in a statement. "The only way to stop this is to not visit zoos."

"When the cute animal babies that attract visitors grow up, they are not as interesting anymore.”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: breeding; giraffe; zoo
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1 posted on 02/13/2014 3:23:19 PM PST by workerbee
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To: workerbee

I suppose simply trading breeding stock is too advanced in thought for these zoos.


2 posted on 02/13/2014 3:24:43 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare
Like royalty in Europe, most zoo populations are pretty inter-related.

/johnny

3 posted on 02/13/2014 3:25:47 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Darksheare

Or simply castrating the least desirable male.


4 posted on 02/13/2014 3:26:51 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: workerbee

how about offering the giraffe to another zoo somewhere? Geez people are idiots. Just get rid of it like it’s a damn defective toaster or something.

So effing cavalier about life of all kinds.


5 posted on 02/13/2014 3:27:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: workerbee

“Second Danish zoo plans to kill young giraffe to stop inbreeding”

Couldn’t they just send them to Arkansas?

Speaking of which...

The raging legal debate in Arkansas this week is this: If a man divorces his wife, is she still his cousin?


6 posted on 02/13/2014 3:27:32 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: JRandomFreeper

LOL.
Crosseyed zoo animals, and royals.


7 posted on 02/13/2014 3:29:00 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
No, but they do remain siblings.

/johnny

8 posted on 02/13/2014 3:29:36 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: workerbee

Zoos are cruel and there’s absolutely no reason for them.


9 posted on 02/13/2014 3:30:59 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Darksheare; Blood of Tyrants; Secret Agent Man
There's a Q&A sidebar at the link. In discussions about the prior giraffe, I think castration was not an option because other adult males will still fight & kill it.

Prior discussions here

10 posted on 02/13/2014 3:32:20 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: workerbee

Unngh.


11 posted on 02/13/2014 3:35:47 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: workerbee

At least they aren’t offering the live giraffe into the lions den so they can hone their hunting skills.


12 posted on 02/13/2014 3:36:39 PM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: workerbee
Lions eat giraffes and everything else that moves.

That's what lions do.

People can not like that, but there is nothing they can do about it.

Seems like the natural thing to do with an extraneous giraffe.

13 posted on 02/13/2014 3:42:06 PM PST by elkfersupper
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Second Danish zoo plans to kill young giraffe to stop inbreeding

If Sven has to whack a Gy-raffe to keep from shagging his sister, who am I to criticize?

14 posted on 02/13/2014 3:42:31 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: workerbee

Just like the case of the last giraffe, there are plenty of zoos and other institutions and individuals who would gladly take him. There are plenty of people who would gladly adopt a child rather than see it aborted as well. What kind of sicko mindset uses murder as a first resort rather then a last?


15 posted on 02/13/2014 3:43:36 PM PST by jimmygrace
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To: humblegunner

I’m kinda wondering what that those longneck deer taste like.


16 posted on 02/13/2014 3:43:58 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“how about offering the giraffe to another zoo somewhere? Geez people are idiots. Just get rid of it like it’s a damn defective toaster or something.

So effing cavalier about life of all kinds.:”I couldn’t say it better myself...I agree completely.


17 posted on 02/13/2014 3:44:00 PM PST by pallmallman (Q)
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To: jimmygrace

“Murder”?

Really?


18 posted on 02/13/2014 3:48:21 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: workerbee
Apparently Giraffe is Kosher.

What�s The Truth About�Giraffe Meat! By: Rabbi Ari Z. Zivotofsky Ph.D.
19 posted on 02/13/2014 3:52:35 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: workerbee

Shouldn’t these genius biologists at the zoo think about not breeding the giraffes .


20 posted on 02/13/2014 3:56:12 PM PST by Texas Songwriter
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