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so, like "Be Fed To A Lion When I Die", but with a slightly different timeline, then. |
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So we let you into the zoo for free, but here's the catch... |
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That's not a zoo, more like the Hotel California, except you do get to leave as sashimi... |
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I'm assuming this is a topical joke... |
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Aha, thank you. Too lazy to look it up myself. |
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What the zoo officials did makes perfectly good sense to
me, but I have a somewhat unusual perspective on life and
death. It's actually the same thing that happens in the wild,
only expedited by human hands. |
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I don't think lions, generally born and raised in captivity, should get used to eating anything that might be available for a midnight snack a few pens over. |
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They coulda had a fund-raising barbecue: what kind of beer goes with giraffe ? |
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Predictably, there is a giraffe beer..linky |
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I don't think lions, generally born and raised in
captivity, should get used to eating anything that might be
available for a midnight snack a few pens over.
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Instead they should eat corn-bred beef that's been half-
rotted to break down enzymes that could make the big
kitties sick and dusted with supplement powder to replace
nutrients they would normally get from wild meat? |
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The captive bred giraffe had the potential to develop hip
displasia andor several other debilitating condition, and
therefore could not be used for breeding stock and would
probably become sick shortly into adulthood. The zoo had
no room for another giraffe. No other suitable home could
be found for the giraffe. |
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Lions are expensive to feed. |
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Zoos around the world do this all the time with smaller,
less high-public-profile animals. When Nature cannot cull
weak animals from the herd, we must take that
responsibility. It's a little ugly, but so is Nature. |
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Anybody seen the episode of Planet Earth where the baby
penguins freeze to death in a blizzard? How about the
episode where the caribou calf is torn apart by wolves? Or
maybe the episode where the wildebeast gets eaten by
the... |
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Well, this thing with the giraffe is exactly the same. I'm
just glad they didn't waste the meat. |
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Actually they did have a few offers for the thing, including somebody who offered almost half a mil (no clue why). Meanwhile I'm guessing your prepared beef was still cheaper than 2 years worth of zoo upkeep on a giraffe. |
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I'm mostly curious as to why they'd decide to make a production out of it, given that a fair portion of their income is probably from people who don't want to know about such things. |
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The public attendance does seem a bit weird. |
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//where the baby penguins freeze to death in a blizzard |
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