After Marius the giraffe, Copenhagen Zoo kills whole lion family
(including 2 cubs)  Copenhagen Zoo lions CC BY-SA 2.0 Flickr
Something strange is going on at the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark.
I'm no expert on how to run a zoo, and I'm not trying to attack
them, as I'm sure they have the best of intentions, but it seems
like there must be a better way to do things than to kill
healthy animals just to make room.  Flickr/CC BY 2.0  But let me
backtrack a bit: This all started a few weeks ago when the zoo
announced that it would kill a giraffe named Marius because it
was a "surplus to requirements" and they couldn't find another
zoo to take it because of European laws on inbreeding. This
decision was quite controversial, with protests and petitions
against it, the whole nine yards. Despite this, the zoo ended up
killing Marius and dissected it in public before feeding part of
the carcass to lions.  You can see some photos here (warning:
graphic). There are also some much more gory photos of the
autopsy on Flickr,