Marius ....
In early February, Marius, an 18-month-old giraffe was killed by the Copenhagen Zoo because he was considered useless for breeding
His tragic death opened the eyes of many for the first time to what zoos are really about: holding sensitive animals captive and creating more and more babies in order to help draw tourists through their gates.
Animals deserve better than miserable lives as exhibits in zoos and other cruel menageries that exploit them in order to entertain gawking visitors.
Zoos are little more than prisons for animals who are sentenced to spend their entire lives confined to enclosures and cages that are nothing like the homes and experiences that they would have had in the wild. It's rare to hear about an animal in captivity dying of old age, and many animals, like Marius, endure short lives thousands of miles away from their natural habitat in climates that are dramatically different from those that they would normally have grown up in.
Denied the opportunity to fulfil even their most basic instincts and desires, it's not uncommon for captive animals held in zoos to suffer from depression and stress-related behaviour, such as incessant pacing or swaying. This behaviour has been documented in many captive species and has been observed so frequently that the condition has been termed "zoochosis".
Despite this misery, zoos continue to push giraffes and other animals into breeding programmes to provide the facilities with more and more baby animals for visitors to fawn over instead of helping wild populations in the animals' natural habitats. Marius was killed because zoo officials didn't consider him good breeding stock, a tragedy that has been repeated in zoos in Britain and around the world for years and one that is never mentioned in their glossy tourism brochures.
It's hard to believe that zoos are still allowed to exploit animals. Denied all that's natural and important to them, animals like Marius will often spend their entire lives as prisoners, being told when to eat, when to sleep and when to go outside - if they are allowed outdoors at all.
In recent years, we've seen tremendous progress made in stopping cruel entertainment. Countless caring people around the world have been educated about the misery endured by bulls in bullfighting rings and elephants in circuses, and many businesses have been persuaded to pull sponsorships from companies that care more about money than about an animal's well-being.
source : PETA UK
The Copenhagen Zoo killed a healthy giraffe named Marius because of European inbreeding laws. The autopsy was performed outside in front of people and the carcass was fed to the zoo's carnivores.
source : FULL STORY
Marius the giraffe not alone : thousands of animals killed at European zoos yearly
FULL STORY
every act will be held accountable, later....
His tragic death opened the eyes of many for the first time to what zoos are really about: holding sensitive animals captive and creating more and more babies in order to help draw tourists through their gates.
Animals deserve better than miserable lives as exhibits in zoos and other cruel menageries that exploit them in order to entertain gawking visitors.
Zoos are little more than prisons for animals who are sentenced to spend their entire lives confined to enclosures and cages that are nothing like the homes and experiences that they would have had in the wild. It's rare to hear about an animal in captivity dying of old age, and many animals, like Marius, endure short lives thousands of miles away from their natural habitat in climates that are dramatically different from those that they would normally have grown up in.
Denied the opportunity to fulfil even their most basic instincts and desires, it's not uncommon for captive animals held in zoos to suffer from depression and stress-related behaviour, such as incessant pacing or swaying. This behaviour has been documented in many captive species and has been observed so frequently that the condition has been termed "zoochosis".
Despite this misery, zoos continue to push giraffes and other animals into breeding programmes to provide the facilities with more and more baby animals for visitors to fawn over instead of helping wild populations in the animals' natural habitats. Marius was killed because zoo officials didn't consider him good breeding stock, a tragedy that has been repeated in zoos in Britain and around the world for years and one that is never mentioned in their glossy tourism brochures.
It's hard to believe that zoos are still allowed to exploit animals. Denied all that's natural and important to them, animals like Marius will often spend their entire lives as prisoners, being told when to eat, when to sleep and when to go outside - if they are allowed outdoors at all.
In recent years, we've seen tremendous progress made in stopping cruel entertainment. Countless caring people around the world have been educated about the misery endured by bulls in bullfighting rings and elephants in circuses, and many businesses have been persuaded to pull sponsorships from companies that care more about money than about an animal's well-being.
source : PETA UK
The Copenhagen Zoo killed a healthy giraffe named Marius because of European inbreeding laws. The autopsy was performed outside in front of people and the carcass was fed to the zoo's carnivores.
source : FULL STORY
Marius the giraffe not alone : thousands of animals killed at European zoos yearly
FULL STORY
every act will be held accountable, later....