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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

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Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. I’m not gong to go into the ethics and reasons behind why a zoo might want to, well, manage its stock. My reaction would be pretty much the same.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. Why would any human being think that killing a Giraffe ( Giraffa ) is a good idea? They are listed as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN red list.

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