The one-and-a-half-year giraffe Marius became on February 9, 2014 in a literal sense a world celebrity. However he because this day he died did not happen to learn about it and still disputes on admissibility of that do not cease, this death how exactly occurred.
Instruction
1. Life of animals in zoos not always is such cloudless as we would like to trust sometimes. Only the small quantity them dies of an old age, having lived happily the animal century. Many of them perish from diseases, happens as from melancholy, and some go to a pro-forage to predators to the neighboring open-air cages at all. Something similar happened also in the Danish zoo to a giraffe by the name of Marius.
2. Everything began in 2012 when as a result of closely related crossing of two animals in Copenhagen the zhirafenok was born. Whether there was it through an oversight of employees or was planned in advance, today it is already impossible to tell. The kid was named Marius and he at once became an object of affection of numerous visitors, first of all children. Many people came to a zoo specially to look at Marius, but none of them knew that the fate of this spotty creation on thin legs is predetermined long ago and it was necessary to live to it very little.
3. All zoos of Europe submit to the European association of zoos and aquariums, one of the purposes of which is maintaining genetic purity of the animals who are contained in bondage. As Marius was given birth as a result of inbreeding (closely related crossing), it was impossible to assume that its genetic material received further distribution, simply telling it subjected to rejection. If to be extremely honest, this procedure is not something unusual, daily in zoos a number of the defective animals is hammered and it is considered normal.
4. Indignation of world community caused in what way the young giraffe had to say goodbye to life. Namely the fact that attendants of the Danish zoo organized the real show from this event. In advance visitors and the press were informed, in the invitation the emphasis on the fact that the scene of a face will be especially interesting to children who will have an opportunity not only to soprisutstvovat on a rare show, but also to receive some kind of lesson of animal anatomy, to learn how the giraffe looks from within was placed. Numerous protests did not take the effect and in the appointed hour brought Marius out of the shelter, showed it a bread top crust and when that stretched the head behind delicacy, killed him with a shot from a construction gun. In conclusion carcass of a giraffe was cut in the face of public and put at the mercy to lions.
5. Despite the indignation which stirred up the whole world, attendants of a zoo in Copenhagen to these do not understand public indignation. According to them they they annually reject from 20 to 30 animals - antelopes, goats or wild boars, but the death of a giraffe caused such negative resonance. By the way, literally in a month 4 lions, those on which pro-forage Marius's meat - 2 old animals and 2 cubs left were slaughtered in the same place.