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Danish zoo sparks outrage by killing healthy giraffe
Thousands signed petition to save Marius, who was put down to avoid inbreeding and then fed to the lions


Marius the giraffe
Marius the giraffe at Copenhagen zoo on Friday. Photograph: Keld Navntoft/AFP/Getty Images
A healthy young giraffe has been put down at Copenhagen zoo, despite a campaign to save it.

Protesters carrying banners gathered outside the zoo this morning and thousands of people signed a petition to rescue the giraffe, called Marius, after the Danish zoo announced it was planning to kill the animal because of European laws on inbreeding.

Other zoos, including the Yorkshire wildlife park in Britain, had offered to take it in.

But according to the Danish newspaper BT, Marius was fed some rye bread at 9.15am and was killed shortly after by a shot in the head with a bolt gun.

Live footage of his body being dissected was streamed by Ekstra Bladet, showing zoo workers wearing green rubber gloves carrying out the dissection while an announcer guided the crowd throughout the process and fielded questions. Some of the meat was due to be fed to the lions later today.

The zoo defended the decision to slaughter Marius, saying that to send Marius to another zoo would also risk problems of inbreeding, as Marius's genes were already well represented among giraffes at the zoo.

"We know we are doing the right thing," Bengt Holst, the zoo's scientific director, told Danish TV2. "The many reactions don't change our attitude to what we do. It's very important to us that we take responsibility throughout. We need to have as healthy a stock as possible so we avoid inbreeding."

Holst said some of the meat from the giraffe would be used for research and the rest for food.

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