I do not, in fact, object to a zoo giraffe being ‘culled,’ per se. There was apparently a giant to-do over the entire thing; and while I understand the ‘save the cute baby giraffe’ impulse the zookeepers have a point: zoo animals have a bit of a genetic bottleneck situation going on. And if you’re going to kill an animal, you shouldn’t just throw it away afterward. Lions, in point of fact, eat giraffes (when they can): it is not unreasonable thing to feed them freshly-killed giraffe meat.
But.
Given my tagline and avatar, I retain the right to be slightly horrified at the idea of bringing the kiddies in to watch the giraffe get autopsied and butchered. You will all simply have to accommodate me on this.
Via:
A Danish zoo kills baby giraffe deemed ‘surplus’ and feeds him to the lions http://t.co/31uksC101m No, seriously. His name was Marius
— Fifth Snowflake (@RennaW) February 10, 2014
Moe Lane
Lion doesn’t want to be fed. He wants to hunt.
No that is what the Lioness wants to do. The Lion is perfectly happy to be fed, in fact he *demands* it.
It’s the ciiiircle. The circle of life…
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Yeah, I don’t see the big deal. There is nothing wrong with butchering an animal. And there is nothing wrong with children being exposed to it.
It’s my freaking Internet *totem animal*. As I said, I reserve the right. 🙂
Aren’t you supposed to hunt one down and drink its blood to gain that level of kinship? 🙂
I took a correspondence course instead.
I didn’t know there were any correspondence schools in Delaware.
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http://goo.gl/AFHypb
I eat Alligator meat all the time. Only the American Alligator, none of that Chinese Alligator.
I hear that gator meat doesn’t taste half bad. Not that I’d eat a reader’s totem animal. …where they could see.
Don’t sweat it. I now know to bring you some jerk alligator meat if we ever meet up.
It’s the ciiiircle. The circle of life …
Or it might be The Surprises of Life …
Why not SELL the baby giraffe to a willing buyer, and use the proceeds from the sale to buy a whole shipload of meat for the zoo’s carnivores? Giraffe is happy, carnivores are happy, children are happy, new owner of giraffe is happy, zoo curators are happy, and the deceased meat animals are no more dead than they would have been had there been no sale — win/win/win/win/win/zero-sum.
Put the baby giraffe in the lions’ den and charge for admission to see what happens – I imagine that would bring in far more proceeds (although baby giraffe is no longer happy).
Because scolds were telling them they couldn’t.
There are groups trying to denormalize the killing and eating of animals. Those groups need to be defied at every turn, and mocked incessantly.