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Outrage as healthy two-year-old giraffe Marius is put down at Copenhagen Zoo and fed to lions.



The putting down of a healthy young giraffe in Denmark despite offers from a British zoo to rehome him has sparked outrage with many branding it ‘disgusting’.

Nearly 30,000 people signed an online petition to save two-year-old Marius but he was killed using a bolt gun at Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday.

The zoo said it had no choice but to destroy Marius because of its duty to avoid in-breeding.

Although a number of zoos across the globe, including Yorkshire Wildlife Park which has a state-of-the-art giraffe facility, had offered to take him in



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