Giraffes with the name Marius obviously dangerous to live in Denmark. Just recently made ​​public slaughter and feeding of a specimen in the Copenhagen Zoo for outrage. Well, it might take an animal with the same name in another zoo in the country.

Another zoo in Denmark is considering apparently to kill a male giraffe. Just days ago, the slaughter of a young and healthy giraffe named Marius had triggered a fierce controversy in the Copenhagen Zoo.

Now the Jyllands Park Zoo is planning in the west of the country, according to news agency Ritzau, possibly one of his two male giraffes – the animal is also called Marius by chance – to kill. If the zoo it manage to get a female giraffe, which is very likely, then the seven-year-old Marius must make space, said keepers Janni Løjtved Poulsen. “We can not have two male and accommodate a female giraffe. This would lead to fights.”

Like its namesake from Copenhagen is classified as unsuitable for breeding Marius. There is a high risk that the animal had to be slaughtered because it was difficult to find a new home, the zoo announced loudly “Guardian”.

“If we have to kill Marius, we will do that for granted,” Poulsen said. Danish zoo would do so for years. The wave of outrage after the action in Copenhagen not shrink from the Jyllands Park Zoo.

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The Copenhagen Marius had been stunned on Sunday in the Danish capital and killed with a captive bolt gun. Later, an employee of the zoo divided the animal in the eyes of many visitors. The flesh of the giraffe was fed to predators.

In support of the action it said on the website of the zoo , Copenhagen is part of an international breeding program for giraffe . This eighth strictly to the fact that only animals mate that are not related to each other – so going to maintain genetic diversity . Under these rules, you had to kill Marius .

Despite the detailed explanations came after Marius ‘ death into a storm of indignation . Even before thousands had vainly called for in an online petition that Marius should be spared. After the action animal rights activists condemned the senseless killing in their eyes a healthy giraffe – and called for in an online petition, the closure of the zoo. Its director Bengt Holst got in his own words more than 1,500 text messages and e -mails. ” Most of them were hateful ,” he told the ” Ekstra Bladet ” . Even death threats were among them .

Whether it’s a public slaughter and feeding also give the Jyllands Park Zoo, if the giraffe would be killed , do not stand still firmly said zookeeper Poulsen .

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