This was long before the story of Marius, the giraffe fed to lions last Sunday at the Copenhagen Zoo, put carcass-feeding in the national headlines. “Let me get this straight,” I said in the bar.

Zoo which fed giraffe to lions in front of children now puts down FOUR of the big cats Copenhagen Zoo killed two cubs, their mum and dad as they said they would have been killed by a newly arrived ...

Before the giraffe was killed, an online petition to save it had received more than 20,000 signatures. But the public feeding of Marius' remains to the lions was popular at Copenhagen Zoo.

Among such clips, a video showing how a giraffe had a narrow escape from 20 lions is going viral on social media. This incident took place in Xai Xai, Botswana and was recorded by a 28-year-old ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Saying it needed to prevent inbreeding, the Copenhagen Zoo killed a 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors watched, ignoring a petition signed by ...

Lions usually attack a giraffe from behind, stumble them to the ground, choke the throat to death, and then eat them. Usually, a lion can never beat a giraffe due to its colossal size and height.

Yet another commented: ‘The right decision, at least it was used. I just think it would be better to take a picture of a Lion without a piece of a giraffe. people read the comments, not everyone ...

And they made no attempt to disguise the telltale giraffe-hide markings when his remains were given to the lions.) Eating is not the only thing that European zoos encourage their animals to do in a ...

“The giraffe was running for its life, only once stopping to look behind it. The lions were still at least 200 yards behind the giraffe, not running hard but trotting.

In areas containing no lions, the giraffe population contained 34 percent of juveniles (individuals less than a year old) but in the presence of lions it only contained six percent juveniles. Giraffe ...