Zoo staff children threatened by insane Obama liberals for killing giraffe

[Must eat..giraffe..mmmm!]

BERLIN — Some zoologists are baffled that in order to prevent
inbreeding, a Danish zoo killed a young giraffe and fed its
carcass to lions.

"It's simplistic to say the animal doesn't fit into our breeding
plans – so then why let it breed it in the first place if you
know it's not a desirable offspring," asked William Amos,
professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of
Cambridge.

"I think it's a rather feeble excuse. It's better to have
another giraffe, particularly if it's a healthy one."

Marius, an 18-month-old giraffe, was killed by a gunshot Sunday
at the Copenhagen Zoo and fed to lions in full view of zoogoers.
It was even broadcast via the internet.

Zoo spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro said Monday that he and the
zoo's scientific director, Bengt Holst, received several threats
over the telephone and in e-mails. They quoted one e-mail as
saying: "The children of the staff of Copenhagen Zoo should all
be killed or should get cancer."

The killing went ahead even though an online petition gathered
tens of thousands of signatures against the killing and the zoo
turned down offers from other zoos and individuals to take in
the animal, which was born in captivity and was one of seven
reticulated giraffes, a species native to Africa.

Holstsaid the giraffe was killed to maintain a healthy giraffe
population. Inbreeding can cause animals to be born with
significant deformations.

"If an animal's genes are well represented in a population
further breeding with that particular animal is unwanted," he
said in a statement posted to the zoo's website.

"As this giraffe's genes are well represented in the breeding
program and as there is no place for the giraffe in the Zoo's
giraffe herd the European Breeding Program for Giraffes has
agreed that Copenhagen Zoo euthanize the giraffe."

But Amos said nature has its own way of dealing with inbreeding.

"Basically, we don't understand enough about these things," he
said. "The subject of inbreed depression, which is what you can
get when close relatives breed, is a concern. However, when you
get that, you tend to get (the death) of animals which (are
overbred)."

At the Giraffe Center in Nairobi, Kenya, visitors feed the 10
giraffes that live on the spacious colonial-era grounds.
Officials said that here, at the center, which is devoted to the
Rothschild breed of giraffes threatened by extinction, the
animals are given a protected environment where they can breed
naturally. If there is a danger of inbreeding, the giraffes are
taken elsewhere.

The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, which monitors
international standards and of which Copenhagen is a member,
said it backed the zoo's decision.

"Our aim is to safeguard for future generations a genetically
diverse, healthy population of animals against their
extinction," it said in a statement posted to its website.
"Copenhagen is highly involved in these programs and took a
transparent decision that the young animal in question could not
contribute to the future of its species further, and given the
restraints of space and resources to hold an unlimited number of
animals within our network and program, should therefore be
humanely euthanized."

The petition that once called for saving Marius is now calling
for Holst to be fired.

"Take action now so other innocent animals do not suffer the
same fate as Marius!" the petition says.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/10/giraffe-
killed-fed-to-lions-denmark/5364775/

Let's kill the liberals who are protesting and theatening
children instead.