After giraffe uproar, Copenhagen zoo kills 4 lions

[Calliegirl]

This zoo really needs to be closed down. People have to stop going and making their killing profitable.

Citing the "pride's natural structure and behavior," the Copenhagen Zoo said Tuesday that two old lions had been euthanized as part of a generational shift. It said the cubs were also put down because they were not old enough to fend for themselves and "anyway would have been killed by the new male lion."...

After giraffe uproar, Copenhagen zoo kills 4 lions

 

[Moll Flanders]

 

[KLS52]

Damn.

 

[shyvas]

I've just seen an interview on Fox News about the above killing. A guest that works for a US zoo said that they could have taken all the animals in and there was no need for them to have been killed. Furthermore some kind of action should
be done and the Copenhagen zoo should be made aware of this.

Such a tragic and sad story which makes me feel sick.

 

[Calliegirl]

Someone for the Copenhagen zoo had said they were concerned with preserving the species, not the individual animals, and that all zoos do this. After I heard that, any tiny bit of support I might have had for zoos, ended.

 

[Envy]

When nature cannot take its own course, I guess you have to simulate it.