Denmark: Marius the giraffe butchered in front of live audience *GRAPHIC*

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Denmark: Marius the giraffe butchered in front of live audience GRAPHIC

Denmark, Copenhagen

February 9, 2014 at 14:58 GMT +00:00 · Published

Denmark: Marius the giraffe butchered in front of live audience *GRAPHIC*

Marius the giraffe, one of the attractions at Copenhagen zoo, came to a premature end on Sunday when zoo workers put down the 18-month-old animal before performing a dissection in front of a live audience.

Despite thousands of signatures on a petition to save the animal, zoo officials carried out the destruction in accordance with European rules on inbreeding, which forbid Marius to breed with his closely-related peers. Marius was fed a last meal of rye bread before being killed with a shot to the head from a bolt gun.

Some of the giraffe's remains will be bound for research, while some is reserved for the consumption of the zoo's lion population.

Denmark: Marius the giraffe butchered in front of live audience *GRAPHIC*

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Denmark: Marius the giraffe butchered in front of live audience *GRAPHIC*

Marius the giraffe, one of the attractions at Copenhagen zoo, came to a premature end on Sunday when zoo workers put down the 18-month-old animal before performing a dissection in front of a live audience.

Despite thousands of signatures on a petition to save the animal, zoo officials carried out the destruction in accordance with European rules on inbreeding, which forbid Marius to breed with his closely-related peers. Marius was fed a last meal of rye bread before being killed with a shot to the head from a bolt gun.

Some of the giraffe's remains will be bound for research, while some is reserved for the consumption of the zoo's lion population.

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