The killing of Marius the giraffe at a zoo in Copenhagen surprised many people around the world — and shocked quite a few — but it was no isolated incident. Also put down by European zoos in the name ...

Poor Marius. At 10 a.m. Sunday morning, the young giraffe was put down by his minders at the Copenhagen Zoo, despite the fact that he was perfectly healthy (and utterly adorable). Then, with ...

Another day, another giraffe named Marius set to be killed by a Danish zoo. We wrote on Monday about how the Copenhagen Zoo killed, skinned, and fed to lions a perfectly healthy giraffe named Marius.

"The Marius Effect" and our troubled relationships with other animals Last weekend a young healthy male giraffe named Marius was killed at the Copenhagen Zoo because he was considered to be a "surplus ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Officials at the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark say they received death threats after the zoo killed a 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions. Zoo spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro ...

The Danish zoo that earned the ire of the animal-loving world for killing Marius the giraffe (and then feeding him to lions in front of a class of children) is under attack again for euthanizing four ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Animal lovers enraged by Copenhagen Zoo's decision to kill a giraffe last week could barely contain their anger when a second Danish zoo said it might put down a another of the ...