Let's Feed the Giraffe to the Lions!

[DanaC]

he wasn't messed up genetically. He was just too closely related to the current stock to allow further inbreeding. He was healthy and could have been sent to another zoo to add to their breeding stock (as far as I understand anyway).

The decision to feed the dead giraffe to the lions and allow the kids to see him cut up I don;t have a problem with. Had it been an old and unhealthy animal, then that was probably a useful way to teach them.

But he was young and healthy. There was no need to kill him in the first place.