An 18-month old giraffe in a Copenhagen zoo was put down, chopped up and fed to the lions to prevent inbreeding. In an explanation on its website, the zoo said it had no choice but to kill the giraffe that had been known as Marius with a bolt gun because, according to the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) rules, inbreeding between giraffes is to be avoided. Marius could not be accommodated by the 300 other EAZA-affiliated zoos as it would have caused inbreeding. The impending fate of Marius sparked an online petition signed by thousands of animal lovers that went ignored.
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