Stop violence against animals!
A Denmark zoo that earned international condemnation for a killing a healthy giraffe last month makes headlines across the world again but this time for euthanising four African lions!
A 16-year-old male lion, a 14-year-old lioness and two young lions were put to sleep at the Copenhagen Zoo this week to make space for a new male lion from the Givskud Zoo.
“The change in the lion pride had to happen now because Copenhagen Zoo currently has two young females from the 2012 litter and it is ideal to keep these as part of the new pride and then find a suitable male,” the zoo wrote in a statement on its website on Wednesday.
“If the Zoo had not made the change in the pride now then we would have risked that the old male would mate with these two females—his own offspring—and thereby give rise to inbreeding,” says the statement.
What’s more, the 14-year-old lioness was too old to give birth and raise another litter without complications, the zoo said.
News of the killing spread like wild fire across the globe with 10,000 stories as of Wednesday and Twitter abuzz with people expressing shock and disgust.
What do you think about the killing? We are personally heartbroken!
