In Copenhagen Zoo killed a giraffe :( Bashny.Net

Guide Copenhagen Zoo has gone to extreme measures to prevent cross-breeding giraffes within the same population. With the help of a pneumatic nail gun he was killed polutoraletny male giraffe named Marius.

On the "home page" on Facebook an animal begging to help him. Defenders of flora and fauna not responded to his request and began collecting signatures against his "death." In total, the protection of Marius already subscribed more than five thousand people, reports the BBC Russian Service.

Representatives of the management of the zoo admit they did not want to kill the animal, but they were forced to do it, as so prescribed in the rules of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums, of which the Danish zoo.

The institution explained that the initially searched for a pair of Marius, but their efforts were in vain. None of the roughly 300 zoos in Europe, according to the owners of a giraffe, an individual was found not intersecting with Marius genetically. From the castration of the animal decided to give up because of the "unintended consequences", as if a giraffe to release, it is not certain that he would survive. Moreover, to obtain permission to do so from African countries will not be easy.

! CAUTION! Under the cut have pictures not for the faint hearted.

After environmentalists sounded the alarm about the fate of Marius, his Yorkshire agreed to shelter the zoo and another zoo in Sweden. However, to transfer the animal to another institution is also prohibited by the rules of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

According to local press spokesman Tobias zoo Stenbeck Brough, killing Marius went "according to plan", ITAR-TASS reported. The animal was killed for pneumatic gun nails, because this method is supposedly the most optimal: soporific substance would spoil the meat giraffe, zoo management and intends to feed his other animals. As explained by the scientific director of the zoo, Bengt Holst, it would be ridiculous to throw away hundreds of kilos of meat, reports the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Marius died at a very young age for giraffes. Normally, these animals live up to 30-35 years, and giraffe in the zoo of Copenhagen was only half years.

News report without gravity.

ATTENTION !!! Impressionable, unstable, pregnant look no further!