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“I don’t think anyone would have lifted an eyebrow if it was a pig,” a spokesman said.
Marius, an 18-month-old giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo, was killed and dissected in front of zoo visitors this morning, in order to prevent the giraffes from inbreeding.
Marius the giraffe, two days before he was killed.
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A spokesman for the zoo said that there were already a lot of giraffes with genes similar to Marius in their international breeding program, according to TIME .
“The purpose of the breeding program is to have as healthy a population as possible, not only now, but in the future,” said the zoo’s scientific director, Bengt Holst. “As this giraffe’s genes are over-represented in the breeding program, the European Breeding Programme for Giraffes has agreed that Copenhagen Zoo euthanize him.”
Many people attempted to save the animal -- more than 20,000 signed an online petition, two zoos said they would take him and an individual offered 500,000 euros to stop the killing, but the zoo anesthetized Marius then killed him with a bolt pistol.
The Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Britain already has Marius' brother, so Holst said the park's space should be used to acquire giraffes with more valuable genetics. The other zoo, in Sweden, couldn't offer a promise that they wouldn't sell him later.
Robert Krijuff, the director of a wildlife park in the Netherlands, had made a last-minute offer to take the giraffe that was rejected.
"I can't believe it," he said. "We offered to save his life. Zoos need to change the way they do business."
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Visitors, including families with children, were invited to watch while technicians performed an autopsy. The giraffe was skinned, dissected, broken down and eventually fed to the zoo's lions.
Every year, 20-30 animals are put down at the Copenhagen Zoo in order to manage the populations and keep them healthy, Holst told the BBC.
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