I read they are NOT going to euthanize the other giraffe, since all the uproar over Marius. The killing of this animal was wrong and uncalled for on so many different levels...these people had been offered big bucks for that giraffe and they turned it down. Land all over the Earth is being developed in order to accomodate the exploding human population. The reality of the situation is there is no room for both us and the animals that live in the few areas that still contain wildlife. Now, we can spay and neuter humans, or we can spay and neuter all the wild animals....obviously, these are unrealistic solutions for a very real issue. Unlike animals, when humans are starving and dying, they continue to procreate, making their plight worse. Animals, on the other hand, will naturally decrease breeding, and the populations of a species will begin to decrease. Zoos will eventually be the only place where humans will be able to see animals that roam the Earth today. Zoos must have breeding programs where they breed and continue to strengthen the lines of the animals they have....that is why zoos move animals around and share and swap animals....in order to diversify the lines they are breeding. The zoo in Copenhagen says that is why they put that innocent animal down....their lines were becoming too concentrated....they were doing a lot of inbreeding, and this begins to open up problems of genetic instability. But I have not seen why they chose to kill the animal rather than accept the money they were offered and send the animal to them. I am sure somehow, it was going to cost that zoo money to send that giraffe away....it was cheaper to kill the animal, than ship it off. |